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James Geikie, the Man and the Geologist · Marion I. Newbigin — chapter 2 of 18 · ~111 words · public domain

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BY J. S. FLETT

X. THE GLACIAL PROBLEM BEFORE JAMES GEIKIE 149

XI. “THE GREAT ICE AGE” AND “PREHISTORIC EUROPE” 164

XII. EDUCATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE WORK 180

XIII. INTERGLACIAL CONTROVERSIES 194

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 213

INDEX 221

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PROF. GEIKIE IN HIS LATER YEARS. (Photograph by Mr John Horsburgh) Frontispiece

A STUDY OF PROF. GEIKIE IN 1884. (From Mr William Hole’s Etching in Quasi Cursores, published for the Edinburgh University Tercentenary Celebrations) to face p. 104

PROF. GEIKIE IN 1888. (From a Photograph taken in Philadelphia) to face p. 108

PROF. GEIKIE AT THE AGE OF SIXTY. (From a Photograph by Messrs Elliott & Fry) to face p. 116

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