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| Date | Details |
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| 1814 | Born in Glasgow. Educated in Glasgow. |
| 1840 | Exhibited map and model of Arran at British Association. |
| 1841 | Published “Geology of Arran”. |
| Joined Survey as Assistant Geologist. | |
| 1846 | “On the denudation of South Wales and adjacent counties of England”. |
| 1848 | Appointed to Chair of Geology at University College. London. |
| 1849 | Elected F.R.S. |
| 1851 | Appointed to Professorship of Geology in Royal School of Mines. |
| 1856 | President of Geological Section, British Association at Cheltenham. Address: “On breaks in succession of British rocks”. |
| 1857 | Deputed by Geological Society to American Association for Advancement of Science. Visited Canada and North States with Logan and Hall. |
| 1862 | President of Geological Society, elected Knight of the Order of St. Maurice of St. Lazarus. Paper to the Geological Society “On Glacial origin of certain lakes in Switzerland.” |
| 1866 | LL.D. (Edinburgh). |
| President of Geological Section, British Association. Geological map of the British Isles and “On the physical geology and geography of Great Britain” published. | |
| 1867 | Appointed Director of England and Wales Survey. |
| “The geology of North Wales”. | |
| 1871 | Appointed Director-General. |
| Wollaston Medal. | |
| 1879 | Royal Medal of Royal Society. |
| 1880 | President of British Association at Swansea. Address: “The recurrence of certain phenomena in geological time”. |
| 1881 | President of the Geology Section, British Association “The origin and progress of present state of geology”. |
| Resigned from Survey, December 31st. | |
| Knighted December 7th. | |
| 1891 | Died December 9th. |
Biographies and obituaries
Publications
Memoir (Geikie) pp. 367-374
List of maps – Memoir (Geikie) pp. 374-376
List of horizontal sections – Memoir (Geikie) pp. 376-379
Memoirs: Memoir Geological Survey vol. I Essays in…(1846)
Memoir Geological Survey vol. III North Wales (1881)
Also contributed to : Lower Findhorn (1923).
Contributed to: Central Ross (1913)
Contributed to: Parts of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire (1858)