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November 13, 18o7,—The inaugural meeting of the Geological Society was h d at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Streon on Nov. 13, 1807. Among the eleven gentlman present were Davy, Babington, Count Bournon, Greenough, William Allen, and Richard Phillips. At this meeting resolution was passed “That there forthwith instituted a Geological Societys for the purpose of making geologists acguainted with each other, of stimulating their zeal, of induing them to adopt one nomen clature, of facilitating the communication of new facts, and of ascertaining what is known of their science, and what remains to be discovered.”
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S., E. Calendar of Discovery and Invention. Nature 120, 713 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120713a0
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