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Geological Society of London
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Leisure and Society | Georgiana Chatterton | Her salon had sufficient standing for geologist Charles Lyell
to write with regret on 9 February 1843 when it turned out that celebrations for the Geological Society
Anniversary would clash with one of her parties. |
| Literary responses | Maria Callcott | This article drew considerable response. It was an important element in the evidence offered for a theory of earthquakes which Charles Lyell
put forward in Principles of Geology, which he began to publish in... |
| Textual Production | Maria Callcott | MC
's A Letter to the President and Members of the Geological Society re-stated arguments she had already put forward in a periodical paper against the theories of G. B. Greenough
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 351 (1834): 536 |
Timeline
1807
The Geological Society of London
was founded; it adhered to empiricist methodology and did not admit women until the twentieth century.
1 August 1815
The surveyor William Smith
dated his first-ever geological map of Britain; the national Geological Society
cold-shouldered him and published its own map, five years later, which was essentially a plagiarism of his.
1849
Prince Albert
joined the Geological Society of London
.
18 December 1912
The Geological Society
in London made public the discovery, by an amateur archaeologist named Charles Dawson
, of fragments of a fossil skull and jawbone attributed to Piltdown Man, a missing link in the...
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