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Thanks Andrew John Herbertson for the enclosed document he had sent. Apologises for not being able to attend a meeting and expresses his interest in attending some of the lectures, especially the one on the 'Scottish League'.

Note card listing proposed committee members of a Naturalists' Museum at Dunfermline. Mentions D. Gorrie, Sir J Murray, Coates, Principal Ogilvie, Galt, Goodchild, Archibald Geikie, George Murray, Marcel Hardy, Scott Elliot, W. G. Smith and Habault.

Card note showing idea map relating to sign posting for Naturalist's Museum and how it may relate to other institutions.

Card note listing names in relation to the proposed Naturalists' Society and Museum and Dunfermline.

Card note showing notes relating to nature study.

4 cards and one cover note containing notes and diagrams composed by Patrick Geddes on the study of cities.

Illustrated page. Printed from manuscript.

Chart mapping summer rainfall in Montpellier spanning the last half of the 19th century. Manuscript.

Invitation letter for a meeting on the 27th of January to discuss the need of residences for the large number of students from Colonial countries and India who attend the University of Edinburgh. The meeting will discuss the report of a similar meeting which had been convened by Sir Archibald Geikie and Lord Balcarres in London.

The circular protests against the destruction of the city of Louvain in Belgium by the German Army. Appeals to German educational centres and institutions to exert their influence to prevent the repetition of such military attacks. Requests the government to communicate this protest to the German Imperial Government and to the Hague Court. Appeals to the Allied Governments to prohibit any possible future reprisals of the kind. No signatures included. Four copies. Handwritten note by Patrick Geddes on the back of one of the copies.

The circular protests against the destruction of the city of Louvain in Belgium by the German Army. Appeals to German educational centres and institutions to exert their influence to prevent the repetition of such military attacks. Requests the government to communicate this protest to the German Imperial Government and to the Hague Court. Appeals to the Allied Governments to prohibit any possible future reprisals of the kind.
Signed by the Earl of Aberdeen, J.P.Mahaffy, Michael F. Cox, Joseph McGrath, J.G. Swift Mac Neill, G.N. Count Plunkett, Charles E. Fitzgerald, Conway Swyer, Walter G. Smith, John W. Moore, John Robert O’Connel, Alfred Callaghan, William J. Thompson, W.G. Strickland, E.W.O.H. Mease and Patrick Geddes.

The Outlook Tower is proposing a ‘Masque of Scottish Women’ organised by Mrs. James Seater in the Synod Hall in early June. Asks for the cooperation of the recipient for a Tableau or an episode. Announces a meeting will be held to give further information to those willing to take part in the Masque.

Requests the renewal of the grant and advocates for the efficiency and value of the Edinburgh Summer Meetings. Explains the nature, usefulness and value of their work. Encloses as proof letters from collaborators and lecturers which support the Meetings and argue for its importance and that it comes fully within the scope of the Grant. The letters are from HM. Inspectors of Schools for Scotland, Mr John Struthers, Dr. Kerr, Mr. Sadler, The Secretary and President of the English and Scottish Associations for Technical and Secondary Education. Mentions A. H. Hogg, Thomas Barnby Whitson and some of the lecturers such as John George Goodchild, Turnbull, J. Arthur Thomson, Capper, Andrew John Herbertson, Patrick Geddes, Elisee Reclus, Edmond Demolins, Professor Haddon.

3 copies.

Application for a grant which would support the organisation of the Edinburgh Summer Meeting. Advocates and highlights the merits, values and usefulness of the Meeting. Mentions a copy of this letter would be sent to all Town Council members. Mentions Dr. Henry Dyer, Prof. Alfred Espinas, Dr. H. de Varigny, Professor Richard Green Moulton, Prof. James, Prof. Mavor. Signed by members of the Committee John Murray, Fred. Bayley, Patrick Geddes, J. Arthur Thomson, and lecturers C. Lloyd Morgan, Henry Dyer, S. Henbest Capper, Riccardo Stephens (Secretary) and Andrew H. Hogg (treasurer).

2 copies.