Geikie

Geikie, Sir .Archibald, F.R.S., F.R.S.E., LL.D. St. Andrews and Edin., was born at Edinburgh in 1835, and appointed in 1855 to the Geological Survey, of which he became Director in 1881. Besides his official work and his lectures as professor of geology and mineralogy in the University of Edinburgh, he is the author of many books, some technical, others popular. The chief of these are The Story of a Boulder (1858), The Life of Professor Edward Forbes (1861), The Phenomena of the Glacial Brift in Scotland (1863), The Scenery of Scotland Viewed in Connection with its Physical Geology, A Memoir of Sir Roderick Murchison.