Science in 1900 London: The Geological Society

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his survey of science in Imperial London, published in 1901, with this discussion on the Geological Society:

On the opposite side of Burlington House is the Geological Society, formerly at Somerset House.

Though established in 1807, it was not incorporated until eighteen years later.

Its members - comparatively few - meet from November to Mid-summer, when papers are read and discussed.

In the library are some very precious treatises of the seventeenth century, referring to the fanciful ideas then held respecting the formation of the earth, etc, and the origin of fossils, etc.

The Society's Journal, published quarterly, is, as befits its subject, important, but to the unscientific, rather heavy "reading."

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