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Copies (often photocopies) of statutes and statutory instruments relating to health and safety, social security, etc. In reverse chronological order. Starts with a photocopy of the ‘Workmen’s compensation act, 1925’. Also includes occasional correspondence, press reports, SPAID/OEDA notes.

Includes annotated copy of the Human Tissue Bill (2004).

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:

• company correspondence re lung cancer, 1923-1946, including statistics on occupational lung cancer mortality, lists of 'suspended employees' (= suspended on health grounds) and of employees whose cause of death (as stated by coroner or medical board) involved some degree of asbestosis; also correspondence re Dr Leroy U Gardner's asbestosis research at the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis, New York
• correspondence and papers re medical research conducted by Drs T Belt and E J King on behalf of T&N, 1942-1952
• records relating to Drs R Doll and J Knox' study on mortality from lung cancer among asbestos workers, and T&N seeking to suppress the findings, 1953-1954
• records chiefly re epidemiological studies on lung cancer among asbestos workers, 1954-1959
• correspondence and papers re asbestos and health, 1959-1986, including lists of claims settled or still proceeding, list of deaths from lung cancer and mesothelioma, etc

Entitled 'Description of plant and results of 12 hour duty trial of triple expansion pumping engine'.

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.

• 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.

'Imaginative School Children: An Edinburgh Test'; 'The Edinburgh People: Highland and Border Elements'; and 'Children's Games'. Source unknown.

• 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.