Manuscript and printed.
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.
Mentions 'ontogeny', 'personal theory'. Manuscript with diagrams.
Includes some material on 'life theory'; 'theory of social science'; biotechnics; synthetics; cosmic and human thought; evolution of sight; dreams.
Mentions Adler; Julian Huxley; J. Arthur Thomson; E. Réclus; Knights Association; Edinburgh Social Union; Collège des Ecossais; Scots Clans Society Burns Night; tartan. Manuscript with diagrams.
References to sociology; ethopolity; education; 'life and thought process'; 'the after-war relapse into peace' etc. Includes personal details of his life; account of a dream; notes on Victor Branford in relation to a memorial to him; a draft letter to the Secretary of the Carnegie University Trust, relating to the availability of four additional Research Scholarships each for £50 (1930-1931); manuscript map (mainly Europe). Also mentions many colleagues and places. Manuscript with diagrams.
Includes lists of material, such as diaries, personal tributes, newspaper cuttings and letters, and a bibliography. Typescript with some manuscript.
Remarks from Gilbert Slater, C[ecil] H. Desch, Rabindranath Tagore, H. Stanley Jevons, M.R. Natal, G. Montagu Harris, Radhakamal Muherjee [sic], Amelia Defries, G[eorge] L. Pepler, Staff and Board of Survey Associates (New York). These cards appear to have been part of an exhibition (possibly the 1954 Centenary). Typescript.
Journal of the Institute of Civil Engineers No. 2, December 1950. Printed.
Also newspaper cutting: 'Maryland to get a Levitt Project'. No date. Source unknown.
Newspaper cutting: 'Huge housing project'. No date. Source unknown.
From The Courier and Advertiser. Printed.
From the Dundee Courier and Advertiser. Notice on the Patrick Geddes Centenary Celebrations. Printed.
The Universities Review. Vol. 27. No. 1. October 1954. Issued by the Association of University Teachers. Includes a presidential address on Patrick Geddes by G.R. Tudhope.
Enclosed: note on Arbitration of the A.U.T., February 1954; notice of Insurance Scheme of the A.U.T.; index for Vols. XXV (October 1952 - February 1953) and XXVI (October 1953 to February 1954) of The Universities Review.
Possibly by Alice Mackrell. Manuscript.
One copy is incomplete.
Possibly relate to the Current Events Club, Outlook Tower, 1934-1935. Many are obituaries of eminent men of science or relate to the subjects of education, civic improvement in Edinburgh, with some book reviews.