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I.—Eminent Living Geologists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Archibald Geikie
Archibald Geikie
Affiliation:
Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kinodom.
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Doctor Archibald Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835. He was educated at the Royal High School—the most famous of the many celebrated scholastic institutions of the “Modern Athens,” and at Edinburgh University. He became an Assistant on the Geological Survey of Scotland in 1855, and in 1867, when that branch of the Survey was made a separate establishment, he was appointed Director. A few years later—in 1871—he was elected to fill the Murchison Professorship of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Edinburgh, when the chair for these subjects was founded by Sir Roderick Murchison and the Crown in that year. Subsequently he resigned these appointments, when at the beginning of 1881 he was appointed to succeed Sir Andrew C. Ramsay, as Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, and Director of the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , February 1890 , pp. 49 - 51
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1890

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page 49 note 1 The portrait accompanying this Notice is most obligingly lent by Ferguson, George A., Esq., Editor of the “Mining Journal,” in which periodical it appeared on 12 28th, 1889Google Scholar, and from the columns of which this notice has been largely reproduced.—Edit. Geol. Mag.