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This section comprises the following series:

1. Manuscript and typescript lecture notes, papers etc.

2. Printed and published material

3. Correspondence

This section comprises the following series:

1. Manuscript and typescript notes, papers etc.

2. Printed and published material

This section comprises the following series:

1. Topography

2. Diagrams

3. Patrick Geddes and contemporaries (portraits and group photographs)

4. Prints, drawings and paintings

5. Miscellanea

This section comprises what was probably part of the Outlook Tower library, although some books may have been in Patrick Geddes' private collection. Subjects covered are:

Agriculture, Husbandry, Gardens (1-21)
Architecture (22-42A)
Art (43-55)
Astronomy and Cosmography (56-75)
Biology, Botany and Zoology (76-108)
Education (109-113)
Exhibitions (114)
Geography (115-128)
Geology and Mineralogy (129-135)
History and Chronology (136-187)
Literature (188-196)
Music (197)
Planning, Housing, Public Health etc. (198-230)
Printing (231)
Religion and Philosophy (232-241)
Science (Applied and Theoretical) Including Mathematics, Mechanics, Navigation etc. (242-291)
Social Sciences including Sociology, Political Economy, Politics, Social Studies (312-317)
Travel and Topography (318-341)
Government Papers (342-349)
General Reference Works (350-354)
Miscellanea (355-361)

Papers relating to 'Life: Outlines of General Biology' by Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson, published in 1931 by Williams and Norgate Ltd., London.

Note: Geddes and Thomson appear to have started work on this volume in 1925 and at first the book was to have been called 'Essentials of Biology', a title which was retained for the first part of the volume [see the galley proofs, GB 249 T-GED 17/9 [https://www.ica-atom.org/strathclyde/galley-proofs;isad]].