geologist

• Guyot was at that time forty years old, and was already widely known as a geologist and naturalist, and the delivery of a series of lectures before the Lowell Institute, established his reputation in this country. —  American Men of Mind
• By careful piecing together of evidence the geologist is able to determine the order in which the different sedimentary rocks were laid down, and thus to say, for instance, that the Devonian period was the time of the origin of Amphibians. —  The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
• The elder son, who bears his father's Christian name, is Professor of Civil and Natural History in Marischal College, Aberdeen, and is well known as a geologist. —  The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
• I have already quoted the remark he made (p. 190 One evening when the geologist was at tea with him, Smith spoke about Rousseau also, and spoke of him "with a kind of religious respect Voltaire," he said, "set himself to correct the vices and follies of mankind by laughing at them, and sometimes by treating them with severity, but Rousseau conducts the reader to reason and truth by the attractions of sentiment and the force of conviction. —  Life of Adam Smith
• A geological survey of its territory is one of the first cares of an enlightened government, and a geologist is the one scientific official the leading States of the Union agree in maintaining. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876

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