Author:Archibald Geikie
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Scottish geologist and historian; Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland
This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "A. G-e."
This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "A. Ge"
Archibald Geikie
Works[edit]
- The Story of a Boulder; or, Gleanings from the notebook of a field geologist (1858)(external scan)
- Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, bart.; K.C.B., F.R.S.; sometime director-general of the Geological survey of the United Kingdom (1875) (external scan)
- Outlines of field-geology (1882) (external scan)
- The scenery of Scotland viewed in connection with its physical geology (1887) (external scan)
- An elementary geography of the British Isles (1888) (external scan)
- Geological sketches at home and abroad ([1889]) (external scan)
- Memoir of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay (1895) (external scan)
- The Founders of Geology, 1897, MacMillan, 1905 (ed. ?), 1962 Dover Publications (external scan)
- Types of Scenery and Their Influence on Literature (1898)
- Text-book of Geoology (1903 4th ed.) in 2 vols. (v.1 external scan) (v.2 external scan)
- Scottish reminiscences (1908, c1904) (external scan)
- Geology (1904) (external scan)
- Charles Darwin as geologist. The Rede lecture given at the Darwin centennial commemoration on 24 June 1909 (1909) (transcription project)
- The birds of Shakespeare (1916) (external scan)
- Memoir of John Michell, M.A., B.D., F.R.S., fellow of Queens' college, Cambridge, 1749, Woodwardian professor of geology in the university 1762 (1918) (external scan)
- A Long Life's Work (1924)
- "Campbell, George Douglas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
Contributions to EB1911[edit]
- "Geology," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Hutton, James," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Scotland," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Geography and Geology with James Alexander Manson)
- "Vesuvius," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
Articles in Popular Science Monthly[edit]
- "Geographical Evolution I" in Popular Science Monthly, 15 (August 1879)
- "Geographical Evolution II" in Popular Science Monthly, 15 (September 1879)
- "Rock-Weathering, as Illustrated in Churchyards" in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (March 1881)
- "Science in Education" in Popular Science Monthly, 54 (March 1899)
Works about Geikie[edit]
- "Geikie, Sir Archibald," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Sir Archibald Geikie", a biographical portrait by John McLure Hamilton from Men I Have Painted (1921).
- “A Geologist's Life. Sir Archibald Geikie” (review of autobiography) in The Times, Friday, May 23, 1924; Issue 43659; pg. 8, col C.
- "Sketch of Sir Archibald Geikie" in Popular Science Monthly, 43 (June 1893)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1928.
The longest-living author of these works died in 1924, so these works are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 98 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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- 1835 births
- 1924 deaths
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- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica contributors
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- Educators as authors
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- Geologists as authors
- Historians as authors
- Presidents of the Geological Society of London
- Presidents of the Royal Society
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Recipients of the Murchison Medal
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Recipients of the Wollaston Medal
- PSM contributors
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