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Contains miscellaneous papers with rough notes by [Patrick Geddes]. Mentions: [Autosthenics]; Freud; Bergson; W. James; Nietzsche; various projects and schemes; various places, particularly Edinburgh; 1916 voyage; childhood thoughts and problems; old age. Includes drafts of Indian reports including Indore and [Tanjore]. Manuscript with some typescript and diagrams.

Memoranda of outgoing telephone calls, January to December 2000. In reverse chronological order. Mostly photocopies.

Memoranda of outgoing telephone calls, January to December 1997. In reverse chronological order. Mostly photocopies.

Memoranda of outgoing telephone calls, January to April 1992. In reverse chronological order. Mostly photocopies.

Correspondence and papers re the marathon appeal 1988, which netted just over £2900.

The marathon took place on Sunday 17 April 1988.

Extracts from Employer's Annual Return 1983-1995, documenting SPAID staff in that period.

• annotated typescript (possibly by SPAID / OEDA electron microscope technician Lawrie Hawkins) 'Investigation of lung tissue by electron microscopy for asbestos fibres, marked 'LH' and 'pre-2000'
• handwritten notes by Nancy Tait on 'Preparation of lung samples'; also instruction for Mr L Hawkins and Mrs Joan Lemmon, who started as SPAID electron microscopist in the spring of 1990, taking over from J B Kirkham
• typescript 'Calculation of EM factor'
• some literature on microscopy and fibre counting, including typescript of Cherrie et al. (1987) 'Comparison of optical and electron microscopy for evaluating airborne asbestos' and of summary of A M Johnston (1985) 'A review of present-day automated fibre counting instruments and some future proposals'

Further includes SPAID leaflet c. 1985 outlining theory (and "the facts") of risk assessment, reproducing Richard Doll's arguments on the asbestos percentage in brake drum dust, 1985, and SPAID's comments on Doll's position; followed by two recent mesothelioma cases.