I.—The History of Volcanic Action during the Tertiary Period in the British Isles. By Archibald Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. (Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. xxxv. 1888, pp. 21–184, with 2 Maps and 53 Woodcuts. Reprinted, 4to. Edinburgh, R. Grant & Son. Price 18s.)

1889 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-33
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
Tertiary Period

scholarly journals I.—Trogontherium from a Pleistocene Deposit in the Thames Valley

1902 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 385-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. T. Newton
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Incisor Tooth ◽  
Glacial Deposits ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Charles Lyell ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Sandy Deposit ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pleistocene Deposit

The history of this gigantic rodent began to be written in 1809, when M. Gothelf Fischer described a skull from a sandy deposit on the borders of the Sea of Azof, to which he gave the name of Trogontherium. Since then, at varying intervals, to the present time, new chapters have been added to this history by both Continental and British workers, describing specimens of a more or less fragmentary character which have from time to time been discovered. The English specimens have been chiefly obtained from the ‘Cromer Forest Bed,’ that rich and remarkable series of beds occupying a position in time between the Crags and the Glacial deposits of East Anglia. The ‘Forest Bed’ specimens were first made known by Sir Charles Lyell in 1840, but were more fully described by Sir R. Owen in 1846 and referred to Fischer's Trogontherium Cuvieri. It will not be necessary at this time to refer specifically to each of the additions to our knowledge of this animal or to detail the varying opinions as to affinities and nomenclature, as these particulars will be found in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. Although most of the British specimens of Trogontherium Cuvieri have been found in the ‘Cromer Forest Bed’ a few examples have been met with in the Norwich and Weybourn Crags. The smaller species, which has been called T. minus, was obtained from the nodule bed below the Red Crag of Felixstowe, and an incisor tooth from the Norwich Crag was referred to the same species.

I.—Eminent Living Geologists

1890 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archibald Geikie
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Doctor Archibald Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835. He was educated at the Royal High School—the most famous of the many celebrated scholastic institutions of the “Modern Athens,” and at Edinburgh University. He became an Assistant on the Geological Survey of Scotland in 1855, and in 1867, when that branch of the Survey was made a separate establishment, he was appointed Director. A few years later—in 1871—he was elected to fill the Murchison Professorship of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Edinburgh, when the chair for these subjects was founded by Sir Roderick Murchison and the Crown in that year. Subsequently he resigned these appointments, when at the beginning of 1881 he was appointed to succeed Sir Andrew C. Ramsay, as Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, and Director of the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street.

scholarly journals IV.—Geology of West Galway and S.W. Mayo, Ireland

1874 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 453-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. Kinahan
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
British Association ◽  
Director General ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Geological Section ◽  
The Hill

Having received permission from the Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, I exhibited before the Geological Section of the British Association at Belfast in August last, the Maps and Sections of the rocks forming the hill-country of West Galway and S.W. Mayo, and gave a description of the district, of which the following is an epitome.

scholarly journals Papers read to the Society, March 4, 1897

1897 ◽  
Vol 61 (369-377) ◽  
pp. 29-31
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Nile Delta ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Mechanical Connection ◽  
University College ◽  
Glacial Epoch ◽  
Oliver Lodge

I. “Experiments on the Absence of Mechanical Connection betwen Ether and Matter,” By Oliver Lodge, D.Sc., F. R. S., Professor of Physics, University College, Liverpool. II. “Second Report on a Series of Specimens of the Deposits of the Nile Delta, obtained by Boring Operations undertaken by the Royal Society.” By John W. Judd, C.B., LL.D., F. R. S., Professor of Geology in the Royal College of Science. III. “ The Palaeolithic Deposits at Hitchin and their Relation to the Glacial Epoch.” By Clement Reid., F.L.S., F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. Communicated by Sir Archibald Geikie, F. R. S. IV. “Luminosity and Photometry.” By John Berry Haycraft,. M.D., University College, Cardiff. Communicated by Professor Schäfer, F. R. S.

scholarly journals XX.—On a New Species of Cephalaspis, discovered by the Geological Survey of Scotland, in the Old Red Sandstone of Oban

1900 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 591-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramsay H. Traquair
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Species ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
Red Sandstone ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Form ◽  
A New Species

In the autumn of last year Sir Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Kindly placed in my hands for determination a number of specimens of Cephalaspis, collected by his officers in the Lower Old Red Sandstone of the neighbourhood of Oban. On examining them, I found that they all belonged to one species, which was, however, new to science.Accordingly I drew up a brief diagnosis of this new form, which was included by Sir Archibald in his Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey for 1897, and it is now my privilege, with his sanction, to offer to this Society a more detailed description of the species, accompanied with figures.

The Development of Dental Education in the United Kingdom with Special Reference to Orthodontics

1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-223
Author(s):  
W. J. Tulley
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Dental Education ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
John Hunter ◽  
History Of

The history of the developments in Dental Education in the British Isles is discussed starting in the middle of the eighteenth century with the work by John Hunter, and many to the present day. Stress is laid in the preservation of these improvements in both undergraduate and postgraduate education and the needs for close contact with bodies outside of orthodontics.

Models of Food and Eating in the United Kingdom

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Murcott
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
Food And Drink ◽  
The Uk

Since the end of WWII, there has been a catalogue of far-reaching changes in eating in the UK, many hailed as finally signaling almost a half century of long-awaited improvements, in variety and increased choice, in renewed attention to quality. At the same time, it is possible to identify longer established models of food and drink, including tea, fish and chips, and a ‘cooked dinner’. All echo the particular geography and history of the British Isles and illustrate that it is possible to detect and describe stable patterns of dishes, menus and mealtimes, models of UK eating.

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