JAMES GEIKIE THE MAN AND THE GEOLOGIST
by Marion I. Newbigin
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About this eBook
- Author
- Flett, J. S. (John Smith), Sir, 1869-1947
- Title
- James Geikie, the Man and the Geologist
- Credits
- Produced by Shaun Pinder, Fay Dunn and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QE: Science: Geology
- Subject
- Geikie, James, 1839-1915
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 47871
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47871
- Release Date
- January 4, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.JAMES GEIKIE THE MAN AND THE GEOLOGIST — Transcriber’s Note
- 2.Frontispiece
- 3.James Geikie
- 4.PREFACE
- 5.CONTENTS — Part I. —LIFE AND LETTERS By MARION I. NEWBIGIN — Part II. —GEOLOGICAL WORK By J. S. FLETT
- 6.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 7.PART I LIFE AND LETTERS CHAPTER I Boyhood and Youth 1839–1861
- 8.CHAPTER II First Years on the Geological Survey 1862–1864
- 9.CHAPTER III “The Great Ice Age”: (1) Years of Preparation 1865–1871
- 10.CHAPTER IV “The Great Ice Age”: (2) Publication 1872–1874
- 11.CHAPTER V Marriage and Life at Perth 1875–1877
- 12.CHAPTER VI Last Years on the Survey 1878–1882
- 13.CHAPTER VII Edinburgh and the Professorship 1882–1888
- 14.CHAPTER VIII Final Edition of “The Great Ice Age” 1889–1903
- 15.CHAPTER IX Retirement from the Professorship and Last Days 1904–1915
- 16.PART II GEOLOGICAL WORK CHAPTER X The Glacial Problem before James Geikie
- 17.CHAPTER XI “The Great Ice Age” and “Prehistoric Europe”
- 18.CHAPTER XII Educational and Administrative Work
- 19.CHAPTER XIII Interglacial Controversies
- 20.LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
- 21.INDEX
- 22.Printed by — Transcriber’s Note
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