Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) - An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Edgar Schuster;Francis Galton
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_me bro_, William THOMS, master mariner; subsequently teacher of navigation in New York; author of an elaborate treatise on navigation. _bro_, James GEIKIE (b. 1839), LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.; Professor of Geology and Mineralogy since 1882, and Dean of the Faculty of Science Edinburgh; author of many works on geology, and of "Songs and Lyrics by Heinrich Heine."--["Who's Who," and "Ency. Brit."] _fa bro son_, Cunningham GEIKIE (b. 1824), LL.D., D.D., a clergyman; author of many religious works.--["Who's Who."] _fa bro son_, Walter Bayne GEIKIE, Professor of Anatomy, and Dean of Medical Faculty, Trinity Coll., Toronto. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham #GODWIN-AUSTEN# (b. 1834), F.R.S., geologist; Topographical Assistant to the Trigonometric Survey of India; surveyed the high country and glaciers of Kashmir and by Ladak, also between Darjeeling and Punakha; numerous scientific memoirs.--["Who's Who."] _fa fa fa_, Robert AUSTEN, archæologist and coin collector; he was one of the few in his time who understood the value of local maps; a good surveyor of his own property and neighbourhood. _fa fa_, Sir Henry E. AUSTEN, interested in forestry, and planted largely on his estate; he also knew the value of maps, and had |
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