Excerpt from The Geological Magazine, or Monthly Journal of Geology, Vol. 4: January December, 1907
Director of the Geological Survey of Scotland, however remote his field of work might be, his ever-active pen and pencil kept him in touch with the world at large. The Story of a Boulder. Gleanings from the Notebook of a Geologist his Memoir of Edward Forbes The Scenery Of Scotland viewed in connection with its Physical Geology (1865, 3rd edition and many other of his writings 1 were read with the keenest enjoyment.
We published in February, 1890, a portrait of Sir A. Geikie and a brief summary of his work up to that date, just prior to his election for the first time as President of the Geological Society. The addresses which he gave during the two years that he occupied the chair formed the nucleus Of perhaps his most important work, published in 1897 under the title of The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain, two volumes, beautifully printed and illustrated. In the same year he established the Summary of Progress Of the Geological Survey, an annual publication which gives an official record of the work done by this institution. He prefaced the first number with an account of the Origin and History of the Geological Survey and Museum, a subject which he had dealt with more personally in 1895 in his Memoir of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay. While still Director General he edited in 1899 a third volume of Hutton’s Theory of the Earth, from the ms. That had long been in the possession of the Geological Society.
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