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See also:ANDREW See also:GEDDES See also:BAIN (1797-1864) , See also:British geologist, was a native of See also:Scotland . In 1820 he emigrated to Cape See also:Colony, and carried on for some years the business of a saddler at Graaf Reinet . During the Kaffir See also:War in 1833–34 he took command of a provisional See also:battalion raised for the See also:defence of the frontier . Later he was engaged to construct a military road through the Ecca Pass, and displayed See also:engineering- talents which led to his being permanently employed as surveyor of military roads under the See also:corps of Royal See also:Engineers . This occupation created an See also:interest in See also:geology, which was fostered in 1837 by the See also:loan of See also:Lyell's Elements . He discovered the remains of many reptilia, including the Dicynodon, which was obtained from the See also:Karroo Beds near Fort See also:Beaufort and described by See also:Owen . Devoting all his spare energies to See also:geological studies, See also:Bain prepared in 1852 the first comprehensive geological See also:map of See also:South See also:Africa, a See also:work of See also:great merit, which was published by the Geological Society of See also:London in 1856 . He died at Cape See also:Town in 1864 . Obituary by Dr R . N . Rubidge, in Geol . Mag . See also:January 1865, p . 47; also Trans . Geol . See also:Soc . S . Africa, vol. ii. See also:part v., See also:June 1896 (with portrait) . |
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