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In three sections:

1. Geology of building stones (architectural geology). Notes on lectures delivered by E.J. Edwards.
2. Soils and soil geology (in relation to sugar crop improvement). Laboratory notes by T.H.P. Heriot.
3. Petrology (microscopy of rocks and minerals). Laboratory notes by E.J. Edwards.

Incomplete. Only notes for eight of the lectures survive.

Lecture 3 on 'what the Darwinian ‘[theory] has cleared up'. Lecture IV giving a 'summary of Darwinism' and a list of his fellow-workers, i.e. Alfred Russell Wallace, British naturalist, 1823-1913; Herbert Spencer, English evolutionary philosopher, 1820-1903; Ernst [Heinrich] Haeckel, German naturalist, 1834-1919; and Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, 1825-1895. Lecture V on 'Darwinism and its critics': i.e. Asa Gray, American botanist, 1810-1888; Karl Wilhelm von Nageli, 1817- 1865; Herbert Spencer and Theodor Eimer. Pages numbered 13-18. Manuscript.

One bundle is endorsed 'Y. M. C. A. - W. M. F. C. 24 Nov.' Manuscript.

On classification and criticism of various schools of thought, the higher teaching of history in Britain, Continental seminars, the ideal seminar, the philosophy of history, disorganisation of modern historic literature. Manuscript.

Endorsed 'Education coincides with life', 'S[ummer] M[eeting] '97'. Manuscript.

Endorsed 'G[lasgo]w Exhibition Natural Sc[ience]'. Manuscript.

Set of lecture notes by Patrick Geddes on botany. Incomplete. Notes for days 1, 3, 7, 10, 13, 15-20, 22-33, 41-45, 48 of the course. Manuscript.

Lecture notes by [Patrick Geddes] on Darwin and evolution, on slips in envelope endorsed 'P. G. Opening Lecture. 19 April 1911'. Also includes photograph of an ampelopsis growing on the gable wall of a tenement. Manuscript.

Typescript.

Manuscript.

Series of lecture notes by Patrick Geddes on the theory of evolution. Lectures numbered 6-11 and dated May - June 1890 [Probably following on from T-GED 18/1/77/1]. Manuscript and typescript.

Notes for 11 lectures by [Patrick Geddes] given from April to June 1890 on the subject of evolution and the evolution of plants. Manuscript and typescript.

Endorsed 'Bucherer. [Lieb]. Atmung [ ] niederen in höheren Organismen. Basel 1888'. Probably notes on a lecture by Swiss Botanist Emil Bucherer [Bucherer-Gölz], 1852 -1928. Manuscript.

Manuscript and typescript.