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* The Geological Society of London presents an annual lecture in his honour.
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The Geological Society of America gave a grant-in-aid to complete the work and bore the expenses of publication.
The present edition of crystal data ( Af ), published in 1954 as Memoir 60 of the Geological Society of America, is now out of print.
In that year a grant was obtained from the Penrose Fund of the Geological Society of America to finance additional full-time workers.
He was one of the founders of the Geological Society of London in 1807 and was its honorary secretary in 1812 – 1817.
The hypothesis that the continents had once formed a single landmass before breaking apart and drifting to their present locations was first presented by Alfred Wegener to the German Geological Society on 6 January 1912.
In 1832, Lyell married Mary Horner of Bonn, daughter of Leonard Horner ( 1785 – 1864 ), also associated with the Geological Society of London.
He was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1858 and the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1866.
* Yehouda Enzel, et al., eds ( 2006 ) New Frontiers in Dead Sea Paleoenvironmental Research, Geological Society of America, ISBN 0-8137-2401-5
The 1, 290 original drawings made for the work were purchased by the Earl, and presented by him to the Geological Society of London.
At the same time the Geological Society of America published the “ Physiography and Geology of Region Adjacent to the Nicaragua Canal Route ” in its Bulletin in May 1899 which stands to this day as one of the most detailed geological surveys of the San Juan river region.
The term " Permian " was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir R. I. Murchison, president of the Geological Society of London, who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil.
The Eldredge and Gould paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America in 1971.
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* Darwin, Charles, Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, Chapter 4, Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1844.
* December 18 – Piltdown Man, thought to be the fossilized skull of a hitherto unknown form of early human, presented to the Geological Society of London.
She became well known in geological circles in Britain, Europe, and America, and was consulted on issues of anatomy as well as about collecting fossils, Nonetheless, as a woman, she was not eligible to join the Geological Society of London and she did not always receive full credit for her scientific contributions.
The newly formed, but increasingly influential Geological Society of London did not allow women to become members, or even to attend meetings as guests.
It depicts the six corporate acts of mercy — feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, visiting prisoners and the sick, and the inscription reads: " This window is sacred to the memory of Mary Anning of this parish, who died 9 March AD 1847 and is erected by the vicar and some members of the Geological Society of London in commemoration of her usefulness in furthering the science of geology, as also of her benevolence of heart and integrity of life.
In 1821 William Conybeare and Henry De la Beche, both members of the Geological Society of London, collaborated on a paper that analysed in detail the specimens found by Anning and others.
In 1899, he received the highest award of the Geological Society of London, the Wollaston Medal, in recognition of his outstanding work in the Southern Uplands, and Northwest Highlands of Scotland.
At a meeting of the Geological Society of London on 18 December 1912, Charles Dawson claimed that a workman at the Piltdown gravel pit had given him a fragment of the skull four years earlier.
It was not until February 1831 that the Geological Society of London conferred on Smith the first Wollaston Medal in recognition of his achievement.
The modern geological map of Britain is based on Smith's original work, his map being displayed at the Geological Society in London, although now protected by a curtain.
Geological and presents
The Cameroonian government, speaking through Dr. Gregory Tanyi-Leke of the Institute of Mining and Geological Research, acknowledges the weakening wall but denies that it presents any immediate threat.
* Richard C. Duncan presents his paper, " The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road to the Olduvai Gorge ", on the Olduvai theory ( about the collapse of the industrial civilization ), at the Summit 2000 Pardee Keynote Symposia of the Geological Society of America.
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