Minute Book No 7, 07 November 1867 - 18 March 1879
Item — Volume: MS 2918.1
Identifier: Coll-43/1/7
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing minutes of ordinary meetings with 432 numbered pages.
Full details of the Society's business is recorded including: details of honorary, corresponding and normal membership and diplomas awarded, reports from Annual General Meetings including details of office-bearers and their election, financial details, details of the publications of Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, details of donations for the Society's museum and library and the plans for housing and expanding these. Deaths of members and prominant geologists are recorded, including the patrons Sir Roderick Impey Murchison and Sir Charles Lyell.
Lists of papers read and planned excursions are given.
Pasted into the notebook are: newspaper clippings with reports of Society meetingsNovember 1878 - February 1879. These include abstracts of papers read. There are also newspaper clippings reporting on Society excursions and a joint excursion with the Geological Society of Glasgow . An obituary for former president, Professor David Page, is included. A billet for an excursion by the Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club on 30 July 1881 is tucked between the pages.
Full details of the Society's business is recorded including: details of honorary, corresponding and normal membership and diplomas awarded, reports from Annual General Meetings including details of office-bearers and their election, financial details, details of the publications of Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, details of donations for the Society's museum and library and the plans for housing and expanding these. Deaths of members and prominant geologists are recorded, including the patrons Sir Roderick Impey Murchison and Sir Charles Lyell.
Lists of papers read and planned excursions are given.
Pasted into the notebook are: newspaper clippings with reports of Society meetingsNovember 1878 - February 1879. These include abstracts of papers read. There are also newspaper clippings reporting on Society excursions and a joint excursion with the Geological Society of Glasgow . An obituary for former president, Professor David Page, is included. A billet for an excursion by the Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club on 30 July 1881 is tucked between the pages.
Dates
- 07 November 1867 - 18 March 1879
Creator
- Edinburgh Geological Society (Organization)
Physical Description
1 notebook
Extent
From the Series: 14 Volumes
Physical Description
1 notebook
- Collection Development (Libraries)
- Corporate Minutes
- Edinburgh -- Scotland
- Edinburgh Geological Society
- Geological Society of Glasgow (1858-:)
- Geology Museums
- Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club (fl1881-1899)
- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist)
- Meetings
- Membership
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist)
- Nominations for Membership
- Page, David, David |1814-1879 (professor of geology, Durham University College of Science)
- Scholarly Publishing
- Societies, Geological
Creator
- Edinburgh Geological Society (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Contact:
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
is-crc@ed.ac.uk