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P number: P575782
Caption: Sir A. Geike. [Photograph] [Portrait]
Description: Archibald Geike 1835 - 1924.
Appointed Assistant Geologist (Scotland) 1855, Geologist 1861, Director for Scotland 1867, Director General 1882, retired 1901.
Fellow of the Royal Society 1865; President Edinburgh Geological Society 1868-73; Murchison Professor of Geology and mineralogy, Edinburgh, 1871-81; Makdougall-Brisbane Prize 1878, 1888; Murchison Medal 1881; President of Geological Society 1890-92, 1906-08; Knighted 1891; President British Association for the Advancement of Science 1892; Wollaston Medal 1895; Royal Medal 1896; Knight Commander, Order of the Bath 1907; President of the Royal society 1908-13; Order of Merit 1913.
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright statement: NERC
Additional information: Survey staff photographs. Geological Survey and Museum and Royal School of Mines, 1850-1910 IGS1/639.
Orientation: Portrait
Size: 160.75 KB; 698 x 1000 pixels; 59 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 185 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI);
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Categories: Special collections/ Survey staff photographs. Geological Survey and Museum and Royal School of Mines, 1850-1910. IGS1.639  

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