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THE Russian Mineralogical Society is celebrating its hundred and thirtieth anniversary during January 19-25, 1947, in Leningrad. This anniversary is being specially marked, because it was not possible to celebrate appropriately either th6 centenary or the hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary, since these occurred in 1917 and 1942 respectively.,The Society is the oldest mineralogical society in the world-the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded in 1876 and the Société Minéralogique de France in 1878. Before the founding of the Geological Committee in 1881 in Russia, the Mineralogical Society was almost the only institution conducting regular geological and mineralogical exploration in that country. It thus became a centre for the collection of information concerning discoveries in little-known Russian regions. Among its most active members have been such brilliant scientific men as N. I. Koksharov, E. E. Chernyshev, E. E. Fedorov and A. Karpinsky. The present chairman of the Council is Academician S. S. Smirnov.
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The All-Russian Mineralogical Society. Nature 159, 90 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159090a0
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