James Geikie LL.D., D.C.L.(Dunelm), F.R.S.(L.X.E.), F.G.S.
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Date | Details |
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1839 | Born August 23rd in Edinburgh. Educated at Edinburgh High School and University. |
1861 | Entered Geological Survey. |
1866 | Paper to Royal Society Edinburgh “On the buried forests and peat-mosses of Scotland and the changes of climate which they indicate”. |
Survey work chiefly in the Lowlands and bordering tracts of Southern Uplands and Highlands – including mapping of Silurian, Old Red Sandstone, Carboniferous and associated igneous rocks. | |
Holidays devoted to study of glacial phenomena. | |
1867 | Promoted to Geologist. |
1869 | District Surveyor. Engaged in resurveying of ground for mapping of drift and peat deposits (hitherto omitted from survey maps). |
1871-1872 | Series of papers to Geological Magazine “On changes of climate during the Glacial Epoch”. |
1874 | “The Great Ice Age” published. |
1882 | Resigned from Survey. |
Appointed to Chair of Geology at Edinburgh University in succession to A. Geikie. Prepared new text book “Outlines of Geology” (1884). | |
Set himself to reform teaching geography in schools – Scottish Geographical Society formed for the purpose in 1884. | |
1884 | “Prehistoric Europe”. |
1904 | Elected President of Scottish Geographical Society. Resigned after 6 years and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Society. For many years acted as Hon. Editor of the “Scottish Geographical Magazine”. |
1898 | Text book: “Earth sculpture or the origin of land-forms”. |
1891-1894 | Convenor of Science Degrees Committee at Edinburgh University. |
1894 | Elected Dean of the Faculty of Science. Twice elected President of a section of British Association (Geography and Geology). Delivered course of lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston. |
1889 | Received Brisbane Medal from Royal Society Edinburgh. And Murchison Medal from Geological Society London. |
1894 | 3rd edition of “Great Ice Age” (largely rewritten). |
1913 | Mountains, their origin, growth and decay”. |
1914 | “The Antiquity of man in Europe” published form of Munro Lectures in Archaeology delivered at Edinburgh University). |
1914 | Resigned Professorship, continued President of Royal Society Edinburgh and Hon. Editor of Scottish Geographical Magazine. |
1915 | Died March 1st. |
Biographies and obituaries
Obituary - Archibald Geikie. Born in 1835, died 10th November 1924. Proceedings of the Geologists Association. v. 36 p.191-192. 1925
Evans, J.W. Obituary - Sir Archibald Geikie. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 81 p.lii-lx. 1925
Campbell, Robert., . The late Professor James Geikie, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. [Obituary.]. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society. v. 11 p.232-235. 1923
Spencer, L.J. Obituary - Sir Archibald Geikie. Born 28th December 1835, died 10th Novemver 1924. Mineralogical Magazine. v. 21 p.234. 1927
Obituary - James Geikie (1939-1915). Mineralogical Magazine. v. 17 p.365. 1916
Obituary - Professor James Geikie, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.L.& E., F.G.S. Born 23rd August 1839, died 1st March 1915. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 2 p.192. 1915
Woodward, A.S. Obituary - Professor James Geikie. Born 1839, died 1915. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the
Geological Society. v. 72 p.liii-lv. 1916
Geological Magazine (1913) p. 241
Geology of Yorkshire, Kendall and Wroot p. 438.
Publications
Geological Magazine (1913) pp 245-248.
Memoir: contributed to: Girvan (1869).
Memoir: contributed to: Ayr (1869).
Memoir: contributed to: Peebles (1869).
Memoir: contributed to: North Ayrshire (1872).
Memoir: contributed to: Central Lanark (1873).
Memoir: contributed to: Airdrie etc. (1879).
BGS archives
Ref No | Title | Description |
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GSM/DC/A/C/7/158,160 | J Geikie: Minutes on his appointment. | |
GSM/DC/A/C/8/135 | J Geikie: Letters concerning the appointment and promotion of Geikie. | |
GSM/DC/A/C/8/135,142 | J Geikie: Letters on his promotion. | |
GSM/DC/A/C/16/127,131 | J Geikie: Letters concerning the appointment and promotion of Geikie | |
GSM/DC/A/C/23/195 | J Geikie: Letters on his promotion. | |
GSM/DR/Ge/A/5 | Correspondence on various matters: letters to J.Craik, J.Evans, F.H.Hatch, J.Horne, D.R.Irvine, B... | |
GSM/GL/Wh/2 | Correspondence with other geologists inc. J.Geikie, Jukes-Browne, Rudler and S.V.Wood | |
GSM/GX/Ha/1 | Letters to J Geikie and three printed items | "The Lament o' St Giles's Bells", "Early Flint Tools" by "Naturalist" and pages 3-6 of a paper on... |
GSM/GX/Hd/1 | Letter to J Geikie | |
GSM/GX/Hr/3/1 | Letters to J Geikie, Kitchin, Allen and H B Woodward | |
GSM/GX/Hs/1 | Correspondence: letters to J Geikie about drift deposits of Leicestershire; F.W.Rudler, S.V.Wood... | |
GSM/GX/Wa/1 | Letters from A R Wallace to J Geikie |