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at once unites many of the most characteristic developments and problems of the old world, since still, as of old, linking Europe with Asia, and both, through Egypt, even with Africa," and which we may choose as typical of the province of this depart- ment of the Outlook Tower. Professor Geddes has not only gathered here some remarkable graphic evidences of conditions in Cyprus, and utilized this material in his lectures and publica- tions, but he has organized (again on business lines, similar to those of the Tbwn and Gown Association) a society for the development of the island, the methods being not those of bounty, nor protection, nor enforced cooperation, but the devel- opment of the soil, and the reconstitution of the forests.

There still remains a story devoted to the world, as yet but little developed, waiting for the consummation of the plans of Professor Reclus for the great globe, which was to have been erected for the Paris exhibition of 1900, had time allowed. Not discouraged, Professors Reclus and Geddes are now combin- ing their respective and complementary schemes of globe and tower into that of a complete geographical exhibition, which may be arranged in Paris, in Great Britain, or in America, as cir- cumstances may determine, or if possible reduplicated in all — with smaller regional museums, or outlook towers, for different cities, and with minor outlines adapted to geographical educa- tion in colleges and even schools.

The Outlook Tower is not only a museum and laboratory for the Edinburgh summer meeting and the occasional student ; it is the center for a school of geography, the Town and Gown Association, the Old Edinburgh School of Art, and a publishing department through which "Patrick Geddes and Colleagues" have issued some beautiful books contributing to the Celtic renascence in literature and art, the significance of which has been explained in one of these publications, The Evergreen:

Industrial initiative and artistic life are reappearing, and each where it was most needed, the first amid this ice-pack of frozen culture [Edinburgh], the latter in our western inferno of industry [Glasgow]. Architecture, too, is renascent ; the work of the past dozen years will, on the whole, bear compari- son with anything in English or continental cities, in a few cases may even