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Includes large charts possibly for display purposes. Manuscript with diagrams.

Offprints, preprints, photocopies, typescripts of drafts (etc.) of scientific papers.

Arranged alphabetically by title of publication.

Copies of various versions of the 'Bibliography of papers available from OEDA, documenting the state of knowledge of the health effects of asbestos and related control measures 1897- '. At £20,00, this was by far the most expensive item on the OEDA price list.

Includes:

• other, earlier bibliographical compilations on the topic
• some correspondence re what is a key text, whether the OEDA chronological bibliography is complete, etc.
• press coverage, texts yet to be assessed for inclusion in the bibliography
• photocopies of (often extracts of) listed items 1897-1985 (reports, esp. Annual Reports of HM Chief Inspector of Factories, scientific publications, internal correspondence of the asbestos industry)
• index cards of key texts 1902-1982

Folder of material gathered by Dalton on the history of the awareness and knowledge of the risks of asbestos. Numbered and annotated by Dalton. Includes copies of:

• annual reports and correspondence of Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops, 1898-1947
• Home Office reports, 1930-1935
• annual report of Medical Officer of Health, London Borough of Barking, 1945
• Turner & Newall correspondence, 1943-1957
• academic articles and publications, 1904-1994
• press cuttings, 1920s-1983

Correspondence related to the introduction of a course of Nature Study for adults and teachers, and efforts to have it included in the national syllabus. Manuscript, typescript and printed.

Topics mentioned include: town planning; medicine; sex; the sciences; archaeology; education; life theory; economics; biology; botany; photosynthesis; ethics; evolution; peace and war; art; geotechnics; the slave trade; and Germany. Also references to: V[ictor] B[ranford]; J. Arthur Thomson; Rabindranath Tagore and [Wilhelm] Liebknecht. Manuscript.

Printed

Mainly on overstrain in iron, and on optics but also including lecture on John Anderson to Andersonian Chemical Society, 17 October 1930, and bicentenary address on Newton to the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, November 1927.

Includes:

Envelope of the Exposition Universelle de 1900, [Paris] containing correspondence relating to the Paris Exposition and International Assembly. Correspondents include: [Patrick Geddes], [Andrew Ross], John Ross and T[homas] R. Marr. Mention of [ ] Delvolvé, Don Arturo De Marcoantu [sic], Mr.[ ] Trounce and the International Association. Manuscript and typescript. 5 docs. 17-22 October 1899.

Expense account notes relating to Paris 1900. Manuscript. 5 pp., in envelope endorsed 'Expenses for "Rue des Nations" 1900'. [c 1900].

Programme No. 20 (October 1-12) of the Paris International Assembly of the International Assocation for the Advancement of Science, Arts and Education'. Printed. 1 doc. c 1900. Attached newspaper article: 'International Science at the Paris and Glasgow Assemblies' by Patrick Geddes. From an unknown newspaper. No date [c 1900].

Sheet of notes and diagrams by Patrick Geddes. Manuscript. 1 p. No date.

The New Age, pp. 73-76. 26 May 1910. Includes articles on socialism, foreign affairs and the Prevention of Destitution Bill.

The Nation, pp. 765-768. 26 August 1911. Includes articles on militarism, the Mona Lisa, poetry and the end of a summer drought.

Includes a photograph of the globe at Swanage. Manuscript and typescript.

1. Thanks Patrick Geddes for his letter. Discusses his ideas regarding the influence primary schools should have on the character and manner of youths. Printed copy.

2. Handwritten manuscript of the printed letter.

Correspondence relating to the values, goals and aims of the Future Career Association.

'Artificial Reseau Photospherique' by the Rev. Arthur East.
'Photographs of the Nebulae M8 Sagittarii etc.' by Isaac Roberts.
'Astronomy without a telescope' by E. Walter Maunder.
'Chemical Evolution: a chapter of History' by G. Cecil Fry.

On the classification of the sciences; life notation; the construction of a 'Thinking Machine'; religion and life; 'Phylogeny' and 'Ontogeny'. Also chart on 'Place, Work, Peoples'. Manuscript.