[Darwin, C.] Geikie, A. — Charles Darwin as a geologist.

Cambridge, the University Press, 1909. 8vo (18.6 x 12.4 cm). 91 pp. Original red buckram with gilt title on the front board and spine. In transparent sleeve. = This work by the Scottish geologist and president of the Royal Society Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924) is the full text of "The Rede Lecture. Given at the Darwin Centennial Commemoration on 24 June 1909.". The first 64 pages contain the actual lecture; the following pages contain 59 notes in smaller printing. The importance of Darwin as a geologist is overshadowed by his contributions to evolution, but Geikie shows that Darwin was one of the greatest British geologists too. Geikie and Darwin were friends. Excerpts of letters by Darwin were used by Geikie in his "Prehistoric Europe, a geological sketch" (1881), see Freeman. Slight foxing to the endpapers, otherwise a near mint copy. Freeman, 1351.