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			== Andrew Crombie Ramsay as Director General of the Survey ==

			Extract from: From: Wilson, H.E. Down to earth - one hundred and fifty years of the British Geological Survey. Edinburgh:Scottish Academic Press, 1985. [In all directions: developments under Sir Henry's fourteen successors In all directions: developments under Sir Henry's fourteen successors]

			Murchison died in harness at the age of 79 in 1871 and was succeeded by the faithful Ramsay, who had carried most of the administrative load for the last sixteen years. Ramsay's command was reduced by the removal of the Royal School of Mines which was to be governed by a Council of the Professors, though Ramsay continued to lecture in the School for a further five years and was presumably on the governing body. His immediate concern, however, as Director-General, was the Survey, the Museum of Practical Geology, and the Mining Records Office. In the first it can be fairly said that he set the pattern which was to be followed for almost a century — primary mapping on the six-inches to one mile scale and publication of maps on the one-inch scale, with six-inch publication in the coalfields — spurred on presumably by the Coal Commission.

			The zest for map publication, at the expense of the explanatory memoirs which should have accompanied them, is perhaps the major criticism we can make of Ramsay's term as Director General. Only in Ireland did Jukes and his successor, Hull, make sure that their men 'wrote-up' their notes before moving on to pastures new, and every one-inch sheet in Ireland has an accompanying 'Explanation' — some better than others but all at least useful.

			Apart from Hull in Dublin, Ramsay had two other Local Directors — W.H.Bristow, who seems to have been a fairly solid, not to say stolid, citizen and Archibald Geikie who since 1867 had been Director in Edinburgh. Geikie, apart from the local Directorship, was the first Professor of Geology in the University of Edinburgh and, though an able geologist, was for thirty years undoubtedly the most unpopular man in the Survey. When Ramsay retired in 1881 Geikie (1835-1924) was appointed Director-General and moved to London.

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	== Biographies and obituaries ==		== Biographies and obituaries ==

			[[Geological Survey under Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, 1871–1881\|IV. The Geological Survey under Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, 1871–1881]] From: Flett, J.S. 1937. The History of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office.

			[[1872 Ramsay, Director General - Geological Survey of Great Britain (by E.B. Bailey)\|1872 Ramsay, Director General]] From: Bailey, Sir Edward. Geological Survey of Great Britain. London: Thomas Murby, 1952.

	Geikie, James, . The late Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay LL.D., F.R.S., etc. [Obituary.]. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society. v. 6 p.233-240.		Geikie, James, . The late Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay LL.D., F.R.S., etc. [Obituary.]. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society. v. 6 p.233-240.

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	[https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/administration-and-support-services/records-and-archives/public/Ramsay,-Professor-Sir-Andrew-Crombie-FRS-catalogue-of-papers.pdf List of Papers Sir A. C. Ramsay FRS 1814-1891] Imperial College.		[https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/administration-and-support-services/records-and-archives/public/Ramsay,-Professor-Sir-Andrew-Crombie-FRS-catalogue-of-papers.pdf List of Papers Sir A. C. Ramsay FRS 1814-1891] Imperial College.

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	Obituary - Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, Knt., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. Born 1814, died 9th December 1891. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 9 p.48. 1892		[https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800188739 Obituary - Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, Knt., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. Born 1814, died 9th December 1891.] Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 9 p.48. 1892

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			[https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/ramsay-andrew-crombie Ramsay, Andrew Crombie] Encyclopedia.com

			[https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Library-and-Information-Services/Exhibitions/The-Societys-portrait-and-bust-collection/Portrait-of-Sir-Andrew-Crombie-Ramsay Portrait of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay (1814-1891)]

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	== Biographies and obituaries ==		== Biographies and obituaries ==

			Geikie, James, . The late Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay LL.D., F.R.S., etc. [Obituary.]. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society. v. 6 p.233-240.

			Geikie, A. Obituary - Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, former Director-General of the Geological Survey. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological
			Society. v. 48 p.38-47. 1892

			Obituary - Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, Knt., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. Born 1814, died 9th December 1891. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 9 p.48. 1892

			Memoir. A. Geikie (1895)

			Nature (December 17th, 1891)

			Geological Magazine (1882) p. 289

			Scotsman Dec. 16th 1891. [Copy with the (Guppy) ms.]

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			'''Works listed in the BGS Library catalogue'''

			===Survey publications===
			Ramsay, A.C. ; Salter, J.W. ; Etheridge, R. ; Museum of Practical Geology (1881). The geology of North Wales. 2nd ed.. (Memoir (District) Geological Survey of GB; 3). London : HMSO.

			Ramsay, A.C. ; Salter, J.W. ; Museum of Practical Geology (1866). The geology of North Wales. (Memoir (District) Geological Survey of GB; 3). London : HMSO.

			Ramsay, A.C. ; Aveline, W.T. ; Hull, E. ; Etheridge, R. ; Museum of Practical Geology (1858). The geology of parts of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, (sheet 34). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1867). (Explanation of horizontal section, sheet 40) Illustrative of geological map, sheet No 78 (No 1 Section from Porth Llanlliana...). (Geol Surv G B Explan Horiz Vert Sect). London : HMSO.

			Ramsay, A.C. ; Bristow, H.W. ; Bauerman, H. ; Geikie, A. ; Geological Museum (1859). A descriptive catalogue of the rock specimens in the Museum of Practical Geology, with explanatory notices of their nature and mode of occurrence in place. 2nd edition with additions. London : HMSO.

			Ramsay, A.C. ; Bristow, H.W. ; Bauerman, H. ; Geological Museum (1858). A descriptive catalogue of the rock specimens in the Museum of Practical Geology, with explanatory notices of their nature and mode of occurrence, and of the places where they are found. London : HMSO.

			Ramsay, A.C. ; Bristow, H.W. ; Geikie, A. ; Bauerman, H. ; Geological Museum (1862). A descriptive catalogue of the rock specimens in the Museum of Practical Geology, with explanatory notices of their nature and mode of occurrrence in place. 3rd edition revised and partly re-written. London : HMSO.

			De La Beche, H.T. ; Ramsay, A.C. ; Forbes, E. (1846). [Essays by De la Beche, Ramsay, Forbes &c]. (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Economic Geology in London; 1). London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.

			Ramsay, A.C. ; Hull, E. (1859). Explanation of horizontal sections, Sheet 44. (Geol Surv G B Explan Horiz Vert Sect). London : HMSO.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1859). Explanation of horizontal sections, Sheet 54 : illustrative of geological maps, 61 N.E., S.E, and 62 N.W., S.W.. (Geol Surv G B Explan Horiz Vert Sect). London : HMSO.

			British Geological Survey ; Ramsay, A.C. ; Howell, H. ; Geikie, A. ; Clough, C.T. ; Barrow, G. ; Crampton, C. B. ; Maufe, H.B. ; Bailey, E.B. ; Anderson, E. M. (1910). Sheet 33 Haddington [solid and drift]. [Solid and drift ed.]. (Geological Survey of Scotland 1:63 360/1:50 000). Southampton : Ordnance Survey for the Geological Survey.

			Ramsay, A.C. (18--). Illustrative of geological map, Sheet No. 78. (Geol Surv G B Explan Horiz Vert Sect). London : HMSO.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1846). On the denudation of South Wales and the adjacent counties of England. In: Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and the Museum of Practical Geology in London, Vol.I. (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and the Museum of Practical Geology in London; 1). London : HMSO. 297-335.

			===Maps ===

			British Geological Survey ; Geikie, A. ; Howell, H.H. ; Ramsay, A.C. (October 1860). Sheet 33 [Haddington] [solid]. [Solid ed.]. (Geological Survey of Scotland 1:63 360/1:50 000). Southampton : Ordnance Survey for the Geological Survey.

			=== External publications ===

			Ramsay, A.C. ; Stanley, A.P. ; Roberston, J. Geological account of the Coronation Stone : Appendix to: A.P. Stanley; Historical memorials of Westminster Abbey; 2nd ed; John Murray 1868.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1879). Geological map of England & Wales ca. 1:710 000. 4th ed. London : Edward Stanford.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1872). Geological map of England & Wales ca. 1:710 000. 3rd ed. London : Edward Stanford.

			Ramsay, A.C. (February 22nd 1859). Geological map of England & Wales, 12 miles to an inch [ca. 1:710 000]. London : Edward Stanford.

			Ramsay, A.C. ; Geikie, J. (1876). Geological map of Gibraltar 1:2 500 or 25.344 inches to a mile. [s.n.].

			Ramsay, A.C. (no date given). Geology. no publisher stated.

			Ramsay, A.C. Geology. Survey pamphlets 16p.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1841). The geology of the Island of Arran from original survey. Glasgow : R. Griffin.

			Ramsay, A.C. How Anglesey became an island : Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 32(2) 1876 p.116-122.

			Nash, E. ; Ramsay, A.C. (1879). A lecture on pre-Adamite London: given in the theatre of Merchant Taylor's School, Charterhouse Square, London, 13th February, 1879. London : Blades, East and Blades.

			Geikie, A. ; Ramsay, A.C. (1895). Memoir of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay. London : Macmillan and Co..

			Oldroyd, D.R. ; McKenna, G. ; Ramsay, A.C. A note on Andrew Ramsay's unpublished report on the St. David's area, recently discovered : notes and correspondence. IN: Annals of Science 52 1995 p193-196.

			Hunt, R. ; Spencer, T. ; Davy, H. ; Kobell, F.V. ; Ramsay, A.C. (1845). Novelties in experimental science : comprising practical treatises on photography, daguerreotype, mineralogy, geology, and electro-chemistry. Glasgow : R. Griffin.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1860). The old glaciers of Switzerland and North Wales. London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts.

			Ramsay, A.C. ; British Association for the Advancement of Science. On the geological position of the black slates of Menai Straits, etc. : Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (20th), 1850, Trans Sect. C p.102.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1878). On the geology of Gibraltar. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (1878) p. 505-541 (1878) ; p. 505-541.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1872). On the river-courses of England and Wales. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (1872) p. 148-160 (1872) ; p. 148-160.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1852). On the science of geology and its applications (being the introductory lecture to the course of geology, session 1851-1852). (Rec Sch Mines; 1/1). London : HMSO.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1848-1849). Passages in the history of the geology : being an inaugural lecture at University College, London. London : Printed for Taylor and Walton.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1874). The Physical geology and geography of Great Britain. 4th ed. London : E. Stanford.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1872). The physical geology and geography of Great Britain. 3rd ed. London : E. Stanford.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1863). The physical geology and geography of Great Britain : a course of six lectures delivered to working men in the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, in January and February, 1863, by Professor A.C. Ramsay. London : Stanford.

			Ramsay, A.C. ; Woodward, H.B. ([1894]). The physical geology and geography of Great Britain : a manual of British geology. 6th ed. London : E. Stanford ltd.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1878). The physical geology and geography of Great Britain : a manual of British geology with a geological map printed in colours. 5th ed. London : E. Stanford.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1864). The physical geology and geography of Great Britain : six lectures to working men delivered in the Royal School of Mines in 1863. 2nd ed. London : Edward Stanford.

			Ramsay, A.C. (1877). Report on the question of the supply of fresh water to the town and garrison of Gibraltar. London : Harrison and Sons Ltd..

			Ramsay, A.C. The superficial accumulations and surface markings of North Wales : Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 8(3) 1852 p.371-376.

			Ramsay, A.C. ; Spencer, J.W. ; Murchison, R.I. (1890). Upon the origin of Alpine and Italian lakes, and upon glacial erosion. (Humboldt library; 122). New York, N.Y. : Humboldt.

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