in Great Britain improved largely due to his efforts. Among his works on this subject is The Teaching of Geography (1887). His other books include Scottish Reminiscences (1904) and Landscape in History and other Essays (1905). His Birds of Shakespeare was published in 1916. He was the editor of The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland (1907, His Majesty's Stationery Office), written by B. N. Peach, John Horne, William Gunn (1837–1902), C. T. Clough, L. W. Hinxman, and J. H. H. Teall. Honours and awards Geikie was Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society from 1890 to 1894, Joint Secretary from 1903 to 1908 and elected president in 1909 and awarded their Royal Medal in 1896. He was President of the Geological Society of London in 1891 and 1892, and again in 1906 and 1907. He was also President of the British Association in 1892. He received the honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from the University of Glasgow in June 1901. He received a knighthood in 1891, the Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in 1907 and the Order of Merit in 1914. In 1905 he received the RSGS Livingstone Medal. Dorsa Geikie, a wrinkle ridge system on the Moon, and the mineral geikielite, a magnesium-titanium oxide, are both named after him, as is Geikie Gorge in the Napier Range in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Mount Geikie in the Canadian Rockies, Geikie Peak in the Grand Canyon, and the Geikie Slide in the Atlantic Ocean northwest of Scotland. Death He died at his home, "Shepherd's Down" in Haslemere, Surrey and is buried there in the village churchyard. Family He had married, in 1871, Alice Gabrielle Anne Marie Pignatel, daughter of Eugene Pignatel of Lyons; they had a son Roderick (killed in early life) and three daughters, Lucie, Elsie and Gabrielle (also commemorated on an attachment to Geikie's memorial. Gallery Selected bibliography The Story of a Boulder: Or Gleanings from a Note-book of a Field Geologist (1858) Physical Geography (1877) Textbook of Geology – First edition (1882) – Second edition (1885) – Third edition (1893) Geological Sketches at Home and Abroad (1882) An Elementary Geography of the British Isles (1888) Memoir of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay (1895) The Ancient Volcanoes of Britain, 2 volumes (1897) vol. 1 vol. 2 Types of Scenery and Their Influence on Literature (1898) The Founders of Geology – First