GEIKIE, SIR ARCHIBALD

gēˈkē, 1835–1924, British geologist, educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh. He joined the Geological Survey of Scotland, becoming its director in 1867. He was professor of geology at the Univ. of Edinburgh (1871–82) and director-general of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom (1882–1901). He was knighted in 1891. His numerous publications include Outlines of Field Geology (1876, 5th ed. 1896), Text-Book of Geology (1882, 4th ed., 2 vol., 1903), The Founders of Geology (1897, 2d ed. 1905), and Types of Scenery and Their Influence on Literature (1898, repr. 1970).

See his autobiography (1924).

His brother, James Geikie, 1839–1915, also a geologist, was a specialist in glacial geology. He wrote The Great Ice Age (1874, 3d ed. rev. 1894), Earth Sculpture (1898), and Structural and Field Geology (1905, 6th ed. 1953).

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The Love of Nature among the Romans during the Later Decades of the Republic and the First Century of the Empire
Book by Archibald Geikie; John Murray, 1912
Subjects: Latin Literature--History And Criticism, Nature, Nature In Literature
...NATURE AMONG THE ROMANS DURING THE LATER DECADES OF THE REPUBLIC AND THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE EMPIRE BY SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, K.C.B. D.C.L., LL,.D., D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S. LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1912 PREFACE...
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Patrick Geddes, Maker of the Future
Book by Philip Boardman; The University of North Carolina Press, 1944
Subjects: Geddes, Patrick--Sir--1854-1932
...travelers have agreed with Sir Walter Scott that Perthshire...geology, which, under James Geikies vivid influence, I nearly...geologized under James Geikie and had performed all...course supervised by Sir William Thiselton-Dyer...introduced a new speaker, Sir W, a curator representing...
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The Story of My Life
Book by Harry H. Johnston; Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1923
Subjects: Johnston, Harry Hamilton--Sir--1858-1927
...the standpoint of Lyell and Geikie, and British history as J. R...introduced me to Professor Sir William Flower, then Curator...and introduced himself as "Sir Erasmus Wilson." "I have heard...inserted the hair-growth under Sir Erasmuss supervision, with particular...
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Horace: A New Interpretation
Book by Archibald Y. M. A. Campbell; Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1924
Subjects: Horace
...in English, Ben Jonsons on the death of Sir Henry Morison; 1 how like Horace in...Wordsworth ____________________ 1 Cf. Sir A. Quiller Couch, Studies in Literature...entry " Horace, influence of, on Keats " in Sir Sidney Colvin Life of the latter poet...
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Dictionary of National Biography: [Fourth Supplement] 1922-1930
Book by J. R. H. Weaver; Oxford University Press, 1937
Subjects: Great Britain--Biography
...Admiral Sir Edmund Fremantle, Sir Archibald Geikie, Frederic Harrison, Sir T. G...Hunter: Tout . GARROD, Sir Archibald Edward: "Church"; Duckworth...Norman: Brewer . HURD, Sir Archibald: "Carden"; De Robeck ; Troubridge...
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The Admission of Women Fellows to the Royal Geographical Society, 1892-1914; the Controversy and the Outcome
Journal article by Morag Bell, Cheryl Mcewan; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 162, 1996
Subjects: Fellowship--Demographic aspects, Royal Geographical Society--Membership, United Kingdom--Associations and societies, Working women--Associations and societies
...efforts to find her husband, Sir John Franklin, whose ship...for the post by James Geikie, Professor of Geology...1979). His older brother Archibald Geikie was Honorary Editor...1908-11, and Colonel Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich...and Lady Sykes, wife of Sir Mark Sykes, MP for Hull...
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The Folklore of Northern Scotland: Five Discourses on Cultural Representation
Journal article by James Porter; Folklore, Vol. 109, 1998
Subjects: Folklore--Social aspects, Scotland--Folklore, legends, etc.
...grandeur of the Highlands leaf Archibald Geikie to describe them as "the Ossianic...of the Sheep on land owned by Sir John Sinclair and by Lord Stafford...Edinburgh University Press, 1996. Geikie, Archibald. Landscape in History and Other...
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Eccentric Biography and the Victorians
Journal article by James Gregory; Biography, Vol. 30, 2007
Subjects: Biographers--Criticism and interpretation, Biographers--Works, Biographies--Authorship, Biographies--Criticism and interpretation, Biographies--Works, Biography--Authorship, Biography--Criticism and interpretation, Biography--Works, Eccentricities--Portrayals, Eccentrics and eccentricities--Portrayals, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Influence, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Works, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Influence, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Works
...Jamie," with a picture drawn by Walter Geikie, cols. 865-6. (40.) The identification...Extraordinary Magazine. Carlisle, PA: Archibald Loudon, 1804. Gregory, James. "Eccentric...Described in the Novels and Romances of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. London: James Cochrane...


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Geikie, Sir Archibald
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GEIKIE, SIR ARCHIBALD ge ke, 1835 1924, British geologist, educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh...1898, repr. 1970). See his autobiography (1924). His brother, James Geikie, 1839 1915, also a geologist, was a specialist in glacial geology. He...
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Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1854) and collaborated on the Geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains (1845). See biography by Sir Archibald Geikie (2 vol., 1875). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia...
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Royal Society
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Society are Samuel Pepys, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Humphry Davy, Sir William Huggins, Lord Rayleigh, Sir Archibald Geikie, Sir William Crookes, Sir Joseph John Thomson, Sir Charles Sherrington, Lord Rutherford, Sir Frederick Gowland...


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