Preface
List of Subscribers
Introduction
The road to Smith: how the Geological Society came to possess English geology, S J Knell
The Founders
Doctoring geology: the medical origins of the Geological Society, C L E Lewis
Chemists get down to Earth, D Knight
Jacques-Louis, Comte de Bournon, G L Herries Davies
George Bellas Greenough’s ‘Theory of the Earth’ and its impact on the early Geological Society, M Kölbl-Ebert
Dissenting science: the Quakers among the Founding Fathers, H S Torrens
The Status of Geology
The early Geological Society in its international context, M J S Rudwick
Geology beyond the Channel: the beginnings of geohistory in early nineteenth-century France, P Taquet
The rise of geology as a science in Germany around 1800, M Guntau
Light and shadow: the status of Italian geology around 1807, G B Vai
Scientific institutions and the beginnings of geology in Russia, V E Khain & I G Malakhova
A story of things yet-to-be: the status of geology in the United States in 1807, J R Newell
The Nature of Geology
Military men: Napoleonic warfare and early members of the Geological Society, E P F Rose
Practical geology and the early Geological Society, L Veneer
Geology at the crossroads: aspects of the geological career of Dr John MacCulloch, A J Bowden
John Playfair on Schiehallion, 1801–1811, J R Smallwood
Picturesque ruin and geological antiquity: Thomas Webster and Sir Henry Englefield on the Isle of Wight, N Heringman
The Geological Society and its official recognition, 1824–1828, P J Boylan
Facts and fancies: the Geological Society of London and the wider public, 1807–1837, R O’connor
The Geological Society on the other side of the world, D F Branagan
The first female Fellows and the status of women in the Geological Society of London, C V Burek
The Bicentenary
A year to remember, T Nield
Walk with the Founding Fathers, M J S Rudwick
Dining with the Founding Fathers: a personal view, R T J Moody
Appendices
Appendix I: Geological Inquiries (1808)
Appendix II: Preface to Comte de Bournon’s Complete Treatise of Carbonated Lime and Aragonite (1808)
Index