Sir Patrick Geddes Many people in many lands will lament
the death, at Montpellier on Sunday, of Sir Patrick Geddes. He was seventy-eight, but he had the adventurous spirit of a young man, and it was characteristic of him to spend his last few years in founding a Scots College at Mont- pellier to promote friendship among all peoples. He was primarily a biologist and a botanist, as befitted an old student of Huxley's. But though he lectured for marry years on his special subjects at Edinburgh and Dundee, he was far better known as a sociologist in India, as a town-planner at Jerusalem, and, in his " Out- look Town " by the Castle at Edinburgh as the promoter of all good causes, educational and other, for the benefit of mankind. To sum up Patrick Geddes in a few lines would be impossible, for he touched life at so marry
points. His influence was inspiring *and will endure.
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