Geological Society of London

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Connections 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.
“The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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;...

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1807

The Geological Society of London was founded; it adhered to empiricist methodology and did not admit women until the twentieth century.
Cannon, Susan Faye. Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period. Dawson; Science History Publications, 1978.
226
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
52
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
181
Science in the Nineteenth Century. Editor Taton, René, Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol.
3
, Basic Books, 1965.
345

1 August 1815: The surveyor William Smith dated his first-ever...

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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.
Fortey, Richard. “Prophet of the Rocks”. London Review of Books, 9 Aug. 2001, pp. 27-8.
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Winchester, Simon. The Map that Changed the World. HarperCollins, 2001.
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Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols.
5: 442

1849: Prince Albert joined the Geological Society...

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1849

Prince Albert joined the Geological Society of London .
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
121

18 December 1912: The Geological Society in London made public...

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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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