| Description | Printed meetings cards listing the dates of forthcoming Ordinary Meetings, 1810-1818, and notice of a change of location for a forthcoming OM which was instead to be held at the house of the President [William Henry Fitton] in Harley Street, 30 October 1828. Also in the file are printed notices and a meetings card relating to the special series of instructive lectures, held in the rooms of the Society on Wednesdays at 3pm, 1813-1814 (see above). |
| Administrative History | Most of the material seems to have been sent to George Bellas Greenough.
'For the benefit of Members, courses of instructive lectures were delivered from time to time, the lecturers themselves usually being Members of the Society. In 1813, for instance, the following six lectures were delivered upon a group of successive Wednesday afternoons: geological instruments (Henry Englefield); veins (John Taylor); organic remains (Anthony Carlisle & James Parkinson) classification and chemical character of minerals (Smithson Tennant) ; and geological drawings, sections and models (Webster). A course of lectures delivered before the Society by Arthur Aikin during the winter of 1813-1814 was the origin of his book Manual of Mineralogy'. Gordon Herries Davies, 'Whatever is under the Earth', p50. |