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See also:GEIKIE, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1839- ) , Scottish geologist, younger See also:brother of See also:Sir See also:Archibald Geikie, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the 23rd of See also:August 1839. He was educated at the high school and university of Edinburgh. He served on the See also:Geological Survey from 1861 until 1882, when he succeeded his brother as See also:Murchison See also:professor of See also:geology and See also:mineralogy at the university of Edinburgh. He took as his See also:special subject of investigation the origin of See also:surface-features, and the See also:part played in their formation by glacial See also:action. His views are embodied in his See also:chief See also:work, The See also:Great See also:Ice See also:Age and its Relation to the Antiquity of See also:Man (1874; 3rd ed., 1894). He was elected F.R.S. in x875. James Geikie became the See also:leader of the school that upholds the all-important action of See also:land-ice, as against those geologists who assign chief importance to the work of See also:pack-ice and icebergs. Continuing this See also:line of investigation in his Prehistoric See also:Europe (1881) , he maintained the See also:hypothesis of five inter-Glacial periods in Great See also:Britain, and argued that the See also:palaeolithic deposits of the See also:Pleistocene See also:period were not See also:post- but inter- or pre-Glacial. His Fragments of See also:Earth See also:Lore: Sketches and Addresses, Geological and See also:Geographical (1893) and Earth See also:Sculpture (1898) are mainly concerned with the same subject. His Outlines of Geology (1886), a See also:standard See also:text-See also:book of its subject, reached its third edition in 1896; and in 19o5 he published an important See also:manual on Structural and See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field Geology. In 1887 he displayed another See also:side of his activity in a See also:volume of Songs and Lyrics by H. See also:Heine and other See also:German Poets, done into See also:English See also:Verse. From 1888 he was honorary editor of 'the Scottish Geographical See also:Magazine.
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