Archibald Geikie on the

Last Elevation of

Scotland

by Leonard G. Wilson

Flint implement

from St. Acheul

near Amiens

Illustration from Charles Lyell, The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, 4th

edition (1873).

Archibald Geikie

(1835-1924)

Archibald Geikie at age 33.

Extracted from a group photo of the Scottish Survey staff, 1868, printed in R. B. Wilson, A History of the Geological Survey in Scotland, 1977.

Geikie’s Section of the Sand-pit, Junction Road, Leith

A. Geikie, “On a rise of the coast of the Firth of Forth…,” Edinburgh New Phil. J., n.s.14 (1861).

William Carruthers

(1830-1922)

Portrait from the Geological Magazine, 1912; reprinted in H. N. Andrews, The Fossil Hunters (1980).

Carruthers’ Section of the Beds at Junction Road, Leith

W. Carruthers, “On a section at Junction-Road, Leith,” Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London, 18 (1862).

David Milne Home

(1805-1890)

Portrait by an unknown artist.

Reproduced in the Dictionary of National Biography.

The Antonine Wall and the Roman Road

Across the Forth River at the Drip

Numbers represent small forts along wall.

Endpaper in O. G. S. Crawford, Topography of Roman Scotland (1949).

Distance-slab set up by the Second Legion at Bridgeness

Plate III in Sir George MacDonald, The Roman Wall in Scotland (1934).

Ground Plan of Projecting Knoll at Bridgeness

----- Supposed Track of Roman Wall

Sketch I in Milne Home, “On the supposed upheaval of Scotland…” Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 27 (1876).

Old Sea Cliff about 25 Feet Above Present High Water, and by

----- Line, the Supposed Track of Roman Wall

Sketch III in Milne Home, “On the supposed upheaval of Scotland…” Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 27 (1876).