| Description | George Bellas GREENOUGH, manuscript draft entitled 'Lectures on stratification delivered at the Geological Society', [1813]. The text refers to multiple published references including works by John Woodward, Georges Cuvier, Alexandre Brongniart, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, John Farey and papers published in the Society's 'Transactions' (1811) by Leonard Horner and Henry Holland. Greenough also makes reference to drawings by John MacCulloch in the Society's collection from 1811-1812. |
| Administrative History | '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. |
| CustodialHistory | Original catalogue entry gave a possible date of the lectures as being in March 1813, but there are later notes added, including a reference to a letter from John Farey from 15 June 1813, and another dated 1814. |