Awarded Murchison Medal of Geological Society of London, 116.
Made D.C.L. of Durham University, 116.
Course of lectures to women, 116.
President of Geological Section of British Association at
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 117.
President of Geographical Section of British Association at
Edinburgh, 118.
Lectures at Lowell Institute in Boston, 117.
Appointed Dean of Science Faculty in Edinburgh, 118, 119.
Third Edition of _The Great Ice Age_, 119, 120, 121, 124.
Visit to North Germany and Denmark, 120.
Letter from Glacialists’ Excursion-party, 122, 123.
_Earth Sculpture_, 124;
new edition, 129.
Tour in Pyrenees, 125-7.
Love of children, 127.
Hon. Member of New York Academy of Sciences, 128.
Visit to Norway, 129
Chap. IX.--
_Structural and Field Geology_, 130;
translated into French, 133.
Visit to Wildbad, 131.
Birth of first grandchild, 133;
second, 135.
Visit to Portugal, 133.
Publication of _Mountains: their Origin, Growth, and Decay_, 138.
Presentation of portrait, 138.
Holiday in Switzerland, 139.
Centenary celebrations at St Andrews University, 139.
Presentation of books to University Library, 139.
President of Royal Society of Edinburgh, 140.
Publication of _The Antiquity of Man in Europe_, 140.
Summer in Skye, 140.
Stay at Appin, 143, 144.
Retirement from professorship, 144.
Death, 144
Chap. X.--
Early training, 151.
First work on Survey, 152-5.
Origin of interest in glacial geology, 157.
Influence of Ramsay, 161.
Other influences, 162, 163
Chap. XI.--
Contents of _The Great Ice Age_, 164-6.
Croll’s influence, 166-9.
Interest in post-glacial geology, 169-72.
Reception of _The Great Ice Age_, 172-4;
second edition, 174, 175.
_Prehistoric Europe_, 175-9
Chap. XII.--
Value of work on Survey, 180-2.
Work as professor, 184-6.
Improved status of subject, 187.
Text-books, 188-9.
Work as geographer, 190-3
Chap. XIII.--
Third edition of _The Great Ice Age_, 194, 195.
Interglacial periods, 195-8.
Reception of _The Great Ice Age_, 199.
Interglacial controversies, 199-205.
_Mountains: their Origin, Growth, and Decay_, 206, 207.
Position as geologist, 208-10
Geikie, James Stewart, father, 3, 4, 72, 104
Geikie, Miss, daughter, 127, 128, 133, 139
Geikie, Mrs, 66, 68, 71-3, 75, 83, 114, 125-8, 131, 135, 137-9, 143,
144
Geikie, Walter, uncle, 4
Geikie, William, brother, 8, 9, 12, 16, 17
Geological Congress, International, 122, 129
_Geological Magazine_, 23, 54, 164, 171
Geological Society of Edinburgh, 149, 151
_Geological Society of Edinburgh, Transactions of_, 149, 151, 191
Geological Society of Glasgow, 162
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