Geekie/[Geikie], James ♂

Education

LL.D. 10.2.1877.

Birth/childhood

Born 23.8.1839 son of James Stuart Geikie, musician, Edinburgh and Isabella Thom.

Career

Studied at Edinburgh University.

Became a surveyor with the Geological Survey in Scotland in 1867.

Professor of geology, Edinburgh University 1882-1914 (retired). [University professor]

Publications

The great Ice Age and its relation to the antiquity of man. (London: E. Stanford, 1894)

Earth sculpture, or the origin of land-forms. (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898)

Death

Died 1.3.1915.

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