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Geikie gives a list of eiglity-one books and papers published by bim, 

 forty-six maps, and twenty sectional drawings embodying results of 

 liis surveys — that we can rightly estimate the extent of Sir Andrew 

 liamsay's influence in promoting the advance of geology. For nearly 

 thirty years he was a teacher of geology, and "year by year," Sir 

 Archibald Geikie says, " a fresh band of young men came to listen to 

 him, and to carry the fruits of his instruction to all parts of the world. 

 Season after season he lectured to workingmen, who flocked in hun- 

 dreds to hear him. His lectures were not written out, but delivered 

 from notes, and were always kept up to the latest conditions of the 

 science." Much of his work was published only in this way, or in 

 informal remarks to the Geological Society, when in the excitement 

 of discussion " he would pour out from his full stores of information, 

 and, taking his audience into his confidence, would flash out new 

 views that he had never communicated to any one before." Another 

 form of instruction, less palpable, but equally valuable, was the 

 practical training he gave the men of his staff in the Geological Sur- 

 vey. " Xever was there a more delightful field instructor than he. 

 Full of enthusiasm for the work, quick of eye to detect fragments 

 of evidence, ... he carried the beginner on with him, and imbued 

 him with some share of his own ardent and buoyant nature. . . . He 

 would take infinite pains to make any method of procedure clear, and 

 was long-suffering and tender where he saw that the difficulties of the 

 learner arose from no want of earnest effort to comprehend. ... If 

 a man had any geological faculty in him, it was impossible that it 

 should not be stimulated and educated under such a teacher." He 

 had a singular gift of conversation, " which enabled him to draw out 

 of a man who had any special knowledge to impart such information 

 as served to elucidate geological questions." 



Professor Ramsay records in his diary that in 1843 he refused 

 the Geological Survey of India; in 1859 he began to write popular 

 geological articles for the Saturday Review, which he continued to 

 contribute for several years; in 1862 he received from the King of 

 Italy the order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus in recognition of his 

 scientific attainments and of his services to Italian officers sent at 

 various times to England on missions of scientific inquiry; in 1866 he 

 received the JSTeill prize from the Royal Society of Edinburgh; in 

 1871 he received the WoUaston medal from the Geological Society; 

 in 1879 he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal 

 Academy of the Lincei, Italy; in 1880 he was awarded a royal 

 medal by the Royal Society " for his long-continued and successful 

 labors in geology and physical geography; " and he received the de- 

 gree of LL. D. from tlie University of Edinburgh. 



