| 1901 |
Archibald Geikie retired at the end of February, after 45 years of public service. He wrote a letter Our mountain seclusion protesting against the proposed construction of the Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon railway in the journal Nature. Geikie published a French paper about the international cooperation and investigations between geologists. Geikie attended a complimentary dinner on 1st May with Lord Avebury. An account of which appeared in the journal Nature on the 9th of the same month.He also attended the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus in May in Upsala and Stockholm, Sweden. |
| 1902 |
Geikie published his major illustrated article on Geology in the 10th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in England and Scotland. He worked on new editions of his various educational books. On 22nd August Archibald Geikie was asked to attend the centenary of the birth of his friend Hugh Millar at Cromarty, his native town in Scotland. Geikie gave an address that was printed as a pamphlet for those interested. This was followed by luncheon and a visit to the house where Miller was born. The Geikie family spent the winter of 1902/3 in Rome. He worked in the mornings on the preparations for the indexes for Text-book of Geology, and devoted the afternoons to sightseeing with his family.He was offered the Presidency of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The geological Survey memoir of Eastern Fife was published. |
| 1903 |
Geikie attended the 9th International Geological Congress in Vienna, Austria. The memoir covering the districts of Northern Arran, South Bute, the Cumraes with parts of Ayrshire and Kintyre was published. Geikie was offered the Secretaryship of the Royal Society in November and filled that post with enthusiasm until 1908. Geikie continued to edit the third edition of Text-book of Geology, which was completed and printed that summer. In that year he was elected President of the Royal Society and occupied the chair until 1913. |
| 1904 |
The book Scottish Reminiscences appeared and was a popular work. He also published five other papers including some in French. 11th May Geikie attended a private dinner by the Prince of Wales at the Athenaeum Club. |
| 1905 |
The second and expanded edition of The Founders of Geology was published. It is a very readable work and is an important review of the early development of the science of geology. The volume “Landscape in history and other assays” by Geikie was published. |
| 1906 |
Geikie became President of the Geological Society. A range of different geological papers was published throughout the year including a variety of subjects ranging from geography to biographical materials. He gave an address to a meeting of the Alliance Francaise at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 26th February.Lamarck and Playfair: a geological retrospect of the year 1802 was the subject of the address. It was subsequently published in the Geological Magazine. A French version also appeared in France. A paper “The origin of landscape” was written for the Edinburgh Review, and was printed in October. |
| 1907 |
Knight Commander of the Bath was awarded to Geikie. In May of this year Geikie was one of the chosen delegates to a meeting to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus in Upsala and Stockholm, Sweden. A variety of biographical papers made their appearance. During the Centenary of the Geological of London, Geikie was chosen to preside over the ceremonies. |
| 1908 |
Second term of the Presidency of the Royal Society was offered to Geikie and he accepted. Geikie gave the President's anniversary address: The published work of the Geological Society of London during the first century of the Societies existence. This he gave on the 21st February that year. He also gave the Presidential address on 10th June entitled The Weald that appeared in the Transactions of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies. It was summarised later in the journal Nature. |
| 1909 |
Geikie gave the Rede Lecture: “Charles Darwin as geologist” at the Darwin Centennial Commemoration on 24th June. It was published as a slim red volume in the same year, 1909 by Cambridge University Press. Four additional papers were published that year. |
| 1910 |
Geikie delivered a Presidential Address to the Royal Society concerning the work of that society on 30th November. His son Roderick Geikie died in a London underground accident on the 6th December. He was buried in Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Woking. His major article on Geology in the Encyclopaedia Britannica is printed as the 11th edition of the encyclopaedia in New York. His article on The building of the island was printed in J.A. Balfour's book The book of Arran and published by The Arran Society of Glasgow. Geikie became the President of the Classics Association this year. He gave his address in Liverpool in January 1911. Two further papers appeared that year. |
| 1911 |
Archibald Geikie presents the Copley Medal to Sir George Darwin. |
| 1912 |
The volume The love of nature among the Romans during the later decades of the republic and the first century of the empire by Sir Archibald Geikie is published by John Murray. It was partly based upon the address he gave at the Classics Association in January 1911. This work was reviewed in the journal Nature. A chapter entitled Charles Lyell and Forfarshire geology appears in: Handbook and guide to Dundee and district, Dundee, as part of the British Association. |
