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Geikie (SIR ARCHIBALD g ki a Scottish)

SIR ARCHIBALD (gēki), a Scottish geologist; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Dec. 28, 1835. He was educated at the high school and university.

In 1855 he was appointed to the Geological Survey; in 1867 became director to the survey in Scotland; from 1870 to 1881 was Murchison Professor of Geology in Edinburgh University; and in 1881 was appointed director-general to the survey of the United Kingdom , being at the same time placed at the head of the Museum of Practical Geology, London. He is the author of "Story of a Boulder" (1858); "Phenomena of the Glacial Drift of Scotland" (1863 ); "The Scenery of Scotland Viewed in Connec- 2d ed. 1887); "Memoir of Sir R. Murchison" (1874) "Text-book of Geology" (1882) ; "The Founders of Geology" (1897); "Types of Scenery" (1898); etc., besides numerous class-books, primers, etc., on geology. coming next to Stockholm and Gothen- tion with Its Physical Geology" (1865; burg. Among the noteworthy buildings are the castle (16th and 18th century) and the town hall. Gefle, which has been rebuilt since its destruction by fire in 1869, has a school of navigation, and carries on shipbuilding, the manufacture of sail-cloth, cotton, and tobacco, and fisheries. It carries on an active trade, the principal exports being iron, timber, and tar. Pop. about 32,000.

GEHENNA (ge-hen'ä) (Hebrew Ge Hinnom, the Valley of Hinnom), in Scriptural geography a valley anciently belonging to a man, Hinnom, of whom to a man, an, Hinnom, of whom nothing is known (Josh. xviii: 16), and inherited by his son or sons, whence it is called the Valley of the Son of Hinnom (Josh. xv: 8), or of the children of Hinnom (II Kings xxiii: 10). In Joshua it is described as S. the Jebusite capital, which afterward be came Jerusalem (xviii: 16). Here, during the later period of the Jewish kings, men made their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech or Moloch, the