Geikie, James, geologist, brother of the preceding, born at Edinburgh; in 1882, after serving 21 years in the Geological Survey of Scotland, he succeeded his brother in the chair of Geology at Edinburgh; his principal work as a scientist is “The Great Ice Age”; his literary sympathies appear in his admirable volume of translations of, “Songs and Lyrics of Heine”; (b. 1839).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Geikie, Sir Archibald * Geïler von Kaiserberg, Johann