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.

Edward Battersby Bailey, 1881-1965

1965 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Metamorphic Rocks ◽  
Surface Mapping ◽  
Major Work ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University

Edward Battersby Bailey was a former Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum of Practical Geology, also for a time Professor of Geology in the University of Glasgow. He was born on 1 July 1881 and died on 19 March 1965, having dedicated his life to geological thinking and exposition. Though his studies extended beyond the confines of the United Kingdom and over a wide range of geology, his major work was interpretation, into three-dimensional concepts, of the phenomena observed by surface mapping of mainly igneous and metamorphic rocks in the mountains, hills and islands of western Scotland. His work was marked by physical and mental fearlessness and enthusiasm, reinforced by a flair or instinct for arriving at a novel explanation of his own or others’ observations.

scholarly journals WHAT FUNCTIONS DID EDINBURGH’S TOWN COLLEGE PERFORM IN THE PERIOD C. 1583-1760?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
YI-FEI LIU
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

The University of Edinburgh is a renowned university in the world now. However, it was only a town college back in 1583, and the function of Edinburgh University varies from period to period. It was functioned as a religious, educational institutions in the first place and gradually involved in British politics as well. Moreover, the University of Edinburgh witnessed and promoted the Scottish Enlightenment. Eventually, Edinburgh University becomes an essential university for high-level education in the United Kingdom with advanced and diverse curriculums.

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.

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