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Correspondence relates to performances of the Masques of Learning in Edinburgh (1912), London (1913) and the 'Masque of Scottish Women' of 1926. Manuscript, typescript and printed.

Includes a letter to the Earl of Aberdeen, advocating the need for strong protest; memorandum from educational institutions headed 'Louvain'; similar memorandum from Lord Mayors and corporations; and an application from Patrick Geddes for leave of absence from St. Andrews University. Manuscript, typescript and printed.

The correspondence documents the intention of organising a series of lectures for the London Summer Meeting of 1915 centred on humanitary aid for soldiers fighting the Great War. Manuscript, typescript and printed.

Relates chiefly to Geddes's Indore report and Indian students in Britain. Manuscript and typescript.

Relating to a Hobby Exhibition and the J.B. Hodgkin Elocution Competition of which Patrick Geddes has consented to be a judge. Includes invitation card and programme of the exhibition.

Drafts of regional survey in the area of Edinburgh and Inveresk, including illustrations from photographs, sketch drawings and diagrams. Also includes calendar, October - December 1898. Manuscript and printed.

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.

On science and industrial progress; nature studies; the Nature Study Movement; regional surveys; civics; the drift of science; classification of the sciences; notations; catacombs; economics; ethics. Reference to Robert Flint's 'Philosophy as Scientia Scientiarum and a History of Classification of the Sciences'. Mention of [Charles] Renouvier. 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.

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.

Relating to the classification of the sciences; classification of K[nowled]g[e]; life notations; life theory; synthesis; 'The Two Problems of Ph[ylogen]y conceived as an Interpretation of Real Existence'; 'evolution of species'; thinking machines. Also includes diagrams endorsed 'End papers', possibly for 'Life: Outlines of General Biology'. Reference to [Herbert] Spencer; [Ludwig Andreas] Feuerbach; G[ustav] T[heodor] Fechner; Dr. Eder; [Rabindranath] Tagore; [Paul] Otlet; [Honoré de] Balzac, H[arold Hart] Mann. Manuscript with diagrams.

Includes references to the Decadents, the Symbolists and Iconography, with mention of [Oscar Wilde], Zarathustra, [Emile] Zola, [Dante Gabriel] Rossetti and William Sharp. Manuscript.

Reference to economics and ethics. Manuscript with diagrams.

Two versions. Manuscript.

Printed from various sources.