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THE life of James Geikie deserved to be written, for he was not only a good geologist with marked literary gifts, but also had an innate love of travel, Nature, and the humorous, with the art of making friends. The task has been well done, the biographical part by Dr. Marion Newbigin, the strictly geological by Dr. J. S. Flett. The book avoids the error, so common in biographies, of needless prolixity; it contains well-selected specimens of Geikie's letters and writings, grave and gay, with three, good likenesses and an amusing sketch, and abstains from commonplace padding.
James Geikie: The Man and the Geologist.
By Dr. M. I. Newbigin Dr. J. S. Flett. Pp. xi + 227. (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd; London: Gurney and Jackson, 1917.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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BONNEY, T. James Geikie: The Man and the Geologist. Nature 100, 461 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/100461a0
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