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of the work of the class ; and some of their pleasantest associa- 

 tions had been among the glens of the Highlands and the hills and 

 shores of the Lowlands. 



Prof. Geikie is a prolific writer on all subjects relating to geol- 

 ogy. When he was appointed in 1871 to the chair in Edinburgh he 

 had the whole department to organize a difficult task, but also 

 an educating one and to that, says Nature, we are indebted for 

 the undisputed superiority which he has displayed in his Text- 

 Book, as well as in his other educational writings, " such as the 

 Class Book, a very model of clearness, whereby it has been once 

 more demonstrated that those only are qualified for writing ele- 

 mentary books who are in the fullest possession of the whole mat- 

 ter." Likewise he is the author of small books or primers on 

 Physical Geology and Physical Geography, of which some hun- 

 dreds of thousands of copies have been sold, and which have been 

 translated into most European languages, as well as several Asi- 

 atic tongues. He is also author of numerous memoirs in the 

 Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, the Transactions of 

 the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the memoirs of the Geological 

 Survey, the Quarterly and North British Reviews, Nature, etc. ; of 

 the Story of a Boulder, 1858; in conjunction with the late Dr. 

 George Wilson, of The Life of Prof. Edward Forbes, 1861 ; of the 

 Phenomena of the Glacial Drift of Scotland, 1863 ; The Scenery of 

 Scotland viewed in Connection with its Physical Geology, 1865, 

 and a new edition, largely rewritten, in 1887 ; in conjunction with 

 the late J. B. Jukes, of a Student's Manual of Geology, 1871 ; of 

 the Science Primers of Physical Geography, and Geology, 1873 ; 

 Memoir of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, with notices of his Scien- 

 tific Contemporaries, and of the Rise and Progress of Palaeozoic 

 Geology in Britain, 2 vols., 1874 ; of the Geological Map of Scot- 

 land, 1876 ; of the Class Book of Physical Geography, 1877 ; of 

 Outlines of Field Geology, 1879 ; of Geological Sketches at Home 

 and Abroad, 1882 ; of A Text-Book of Geology, 1882 ; of A Class 

 Book of Geology, 1886. Prof. Geikie was associated with Sir 

 Roderick Murchison, in the Scottish Highlands, in the prepara- 

 tion of a memoir of that district, and of a new Geological Map of 

 Scotland, both published in 1861. He was elected to the Royal 

 Society before reaching the age of thirty years, and is now its 

 foreign secretary. He is past President of the Geological Soci- 

 ety. He received the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society 

 in 1881, and has been twice awarded the McDougal Brisbane medal 

 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is an associate of the 

 Berlin Academy, of the Royal Society of Sciences at Gottingen, 

 of the Imperial Leopold Caroline Academy, of the Imperial Soci- 

 ety of Naturalists at Moscow, and a correspondent of the French 

 Academy of Sciences. 





