Correspondence related to the financial losses and debts incurred by the Town and Gown Association. The correspondence also covers the debt owed to Henry Beveridge and rent arrears for the Outlook Tower, and Patrick Geddes' efforts to secure a new loan.
Also typescript copy of advertisement for lectureship on Citizenship. May 1921 and January 1924.
Correspondence relating chiefly to the establishment of University Halls on Patrick Geddes' model in Edinburgh and London. The correspondence also covers Geddes' initiative to set up an inter-library loan service for the University Halls in Edinburgh, student accomodation for international students, university organisation schemes and the role of universities in the educational system.
- Preliminary programme for the 11th Annual Conference of Educational Association, 28 December 1922 to 6 January 1923. Printed. [1922].
- Circular letter from [ ], Registrar, University of Bombay, to Patrick Geddes and others. Requests that they form a sub-committee to explore what can be achieved through collaboration between the University and the City. Typescript. 1 March 1923.
Entitled 'Description of plant and results of 12 hour duty trial of triple expansion pumping engine'.
- Pamphlet: 'Address delivered by The Hon. Dr. Sir Chimantal H. Setalvad, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bombay, before the Annual Convocation of the University on 16th August'. 1922.
- Newspaper cutting: 'Bombay University: post-graduate studies'. A letter to the editor of The Times of India. 14 September 1923.
Presented at the New School for Social Research, New York City. Relating to city and regional planning, including discussion of the following: history, education, geology, regionalism, Zionist planning schemes in Palestine, wheat and rice-based agriculture; the Outlook Tower, Edinburgh; regional survey; valley section diagram and its various types of occupations; city development. Mention of [Frédéric] Le Play, Frazer's Golden Bough. Typescript with some manuscript amendments.
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town plannerCorrespondence relating to Patrick Geddes' work at the School of Sociology and Economics, University of Bombay. Typescript.
Includes diagrams of the Greek Pantheon as representative of the human life-cycle; 32 square chart; charts of the sub-sciences of Biology in historic and evolutionary order; diagram showing physics, biology, sociology, and their sub-sciences. Reference to London and Edinburgh Masques, Mrs. Campbell Noble, [John Stuart] Mill, International Association of Science and Education. Manuscript.
'Imaginative School Children: An Edinburgh Test'; 'The Edinburgh People: Highland and Border Elements'; and 'Children's Games'. Source unknown.