Long Life''s Work - An Autobiography

Klappentext The final work (1924) of this influential geologist traces his career in the readable style for which he was famous. Zusammenfassung Influential geologist! historian and President of the Royal Society! Sir Archibald Geikie published numerous technical and popular science books! as well as biographical works including Founders of Geology (1897). This autobiography! published in 1924! provides a personal and highly readable account of his remarkably successful career. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 1835-50. Boyhood and school-life; 2. 1850-5. A wrong start. How things were righted; 3. 1855-60. First years in the Geological Survey; 4. 1860-7. Lecturing at the School of Mines. First journeys abroad. Directorate of Geological Survey of Scotland; 5. 1867-71. Start of the Geological Survey of Scotland; 6. 1871-82. Creation of a Chair of Geology in the University of Edinburgh; 7. 1882-91. First years of the Director-Generalship of the Geological Survey; 8. 1892-6. Miscellaneous duties of the Director-General; 9. 1897. The 'wanderjahr' of a geologist; 10. 1898-1903. Last years in the Geological Survey; 11. 1903-8. Secretaryship of the Royal Society; 12. 1908-13. President of the Royal Society; 13. Retirement in the country; Appendix; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Archibald Geikie, Sir Archibald Geikie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2012
• EAN: 9781108048392
• ISBN: 978-1-108-04839-2
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Mineralogy, petrography