Organisation
Geological Society of London
- Slug
- geological-society-of-london-166
- Alternative names
- Geological Society
- Organisation type
- Academic society
- Founding date
- 1807-11-13
- Dissolution date
- Unknown
- Location
- london-1
- Languages
- Unknown
Founded in 1807 in the Freemasons’ Club in Covent Garden, the Geological Society’s mission is: “Making geologists acquainted with each other, stimulating their zeal, inducing them to adopt one nomenclature, facilitating the communication of new facts and ascertaining what is known in their science and what remains to be discovered”. It was partly the outcome of a previous club known as the Askesian Society, and these days is a registered charity, and is both the oldest national geological society in the world, and the largest in Europe, with more than 12,000 Fellows.