Advertising notices for the 'Revue Internationale de L’Enseignement'; 'A New Geography of the Indian Empire and Ceylon' and 'A Junior Geography of India, Burma and Ceylon' by C. Morrison.
Includes a chart showing the relationship between Emotion, 'Ideation' and Imagination; a poem headed 'Tower. Nature-Man', endorsed 'Expansion of Life'; and card-notes for a chapter of unspecified book. Manuscript and typescript.
Alo includes a chart showing the six-fold drama of life. Manuscript.
Includes large charts possibly for display purposes. Manuscript with diagrams.
Includes charts showing the transition from 'Imperial IX' to 'Progressive 9'; and a jotter with notes on the classification of biology. Manuscript and typescript.
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.
Includes a library classification scheme with references to Horace Plunkett, J. A[rthur] Thomson, John Dewey, Gandhi, G[ranville] Stanley Hall, [Thorstein] Veblen; and thinking machines with reference to [Auguste] Comte, [Frédéric] Le Play and Spencer. Manuscript.
Includes notes on Spencer, Comte, Hegel, Aristotle and Plato, and on synthesis. Manuscript.
Mentions graphics; 'IX-9'; child education; occupations. Manuscript.
Possibly relating to Geddes and Branford's proposed institute of synthetic studies. Topics include: classification of the sciences; life notation; religion and the Church; neo-politics; 'present world - ideal world'. Mentions [Rudolf Hermann] Lotze. Some notes written on the reverse of a copy of Geddes's application to the S[cottish] E[ducation] D[epartment] for the directorship of the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, 4 March 1903. Manuscript and typescript with diagrams.
Includes Tower diagrams. Mentions necrology; 'phantomology'; 'biotechny'; 'sociotechny', the classification of politics; the popular conception of science as passionless; literary man; 'Scientia Scientiarum'; the use of 'Towers'; PWF/FWP; synthesis; eupsychics; the real evils of poverty and romance of the past. Also refers to Capt. Petavel, Miss Ker, American Study Bureau, Collège des Ecossais. Manuscript with diagrams.
Manuscript.
Mentions Crosby Hall, [Sir Horace] Plunkett, J. Arthur Thomson. Includes chart of life and a chart of degenerate human types. Some notes written on reverse of papers on the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition and social movements in Edinburgh. Manuscript and typescript with diagrams.