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Archibald Geikie

Archibald Geikie Biography

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“When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.”

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Book:The Story of a Boulder: Or, Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist
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“This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy.”

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Book:The Story of a Boulder: Or, Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist
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