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Explains his ideas for an 'academic banking scheme'. Includes typescript copy and related diagram.

Encloses letter from Mackintosh [not extant], advises that he has received the letter from Mackintosh subsequent to Geddes' lecture at the South Place Institute.

Bartholomew has asked Branford to produce a chart by the Spring, showing chronological racial evolution. Branford states he is having difficulty expressing diagrammatically all that Bartholomew wants. His desire not to lose this opportunity of advertising Geddes's 'diagrammatic historic method'. He is also working on an economic and historical bibliography, and on the Eastern Question, showing the 'historic degeneration of the Turks'. Agrees with Geddes that military energies should be directed to engineering. Comments on 'the Grassmarket at 11 p. m.'

A paper read at a meeting of the London Economic Club by V. Branford.

Diagrams and notes on the evolution of societies; inheritance; variation; and the classification of the sciences. Manuscript.

Discusses Geddes' recommended corrections to a paper that Branford has written and which he accepts, including the substitution of 'formalist' for 'ceremonialist'. Refers to a special committee meeting of the Sociological Society in relation to Herbert Spencer.

Endorsed on reverse with some manuscript notes in pencil.

'The Arts in Relation to Applied Sociology'
'V.V B. May 9 1903'

'Sociological Diagrams' endorsed on the reverse in manuscript in pencil.

Reprinted from The University Review, December 1905, pp. 243-54, and January 1906, pp. 329-44.

Manuscript.

Attached, a paper endorsed 'Evolution in Life'. Typescript. 5 pp. No date.

With reference to the Chelsea Association and papers on Civics by Patrick Geddes especially 'Life Theory' and the work being done in the field.
Mention of Claude Bernard and Colonel Roberts. Reference to Branford's work on Havana.