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SIR EDWARD BATTERSBY BAILEY, who has just retired from the directorship of the Geological Survey and Museum, joined the Scottish Branch of the Survey in 1902, at the age of twenty-one, and rapidly established an international reputation as a leading authority on the tectonics of the Scottish Highlands. He served with distinction throughout the War of 1914–18 and after the conclusion of hostilities became in 1919 district geologist in charge of the West Highland and Ayrshire work. An outstanding achievement during his tenure of this post should be mentioned, namely, the preparation of the classic memoir on the Tertiary igneous rocks of Mull (1924). In 1929 he resigned, on his appointment to the chair of geology at the University of Glasgow; but he returned to the Survey as director in 1937.
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Geological Survey of Great Britain: Sir Edward Bailey, F.R.S. Nature 155, 601 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155601a0
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