I.—Annual Report of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, and of the Museum of Practical Geology, for the Year 1896. By SirArchibald Geikie, D.C.L., F.R.S., Director-General. 8vo. (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1897.)

1897 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 233-233
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
The United Kingdom

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 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.

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.

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