Event type:
Conference, Evening meeting, Exhibition, Lecture, Social event, Specialist Group
Organised by:
History of Geology Group
Venue:
The Geological Society and University College London (UCL)
Event status:
EVENT CLOSED
Due to the present COVID-19 circumstances, this meeting has been postponed until May 2021.
The Geological Map of England and Wales by George Bellas Greenough (1778-1855), also known as ‘the Geological Society’s map’, was published on 1 May 1820. Join the History of Geology Group of the Geological Society for this event to celebrate the bicentenary of this important map.
Greenough was also instrumental in the founding of University College London, both as a subscriber (shareholder) in the original College alongside a number of other prominent early Geological Society members involved in its establishment in 1826, and in its early governance.
Registration
Registration for this conference will open in January 2020 - you can find out more via the event page on the History of Geology Group's website.
Schedule
Wednesday 6 May 2020
A day of oral presentations and posters in the Department of Earth Sciences at University College London (UCL), and an evening bicentenary celebration dinner in the Jeremy Bentham Room at UCL, with UCL Vice-Provost, Professor David Price (a geologist), in attendance.
Thursday 7 May 2020
Viewing and discussion of original Greenough specimens and materials at Burlington House. This will be a unique opportunity to view maps Greenough used to collate geological information, as well as his annotated drafts of the 1820 map and subsequent maps.
Material will be drawn from the archives of the Geological Society as well as that held at UCL, the British Geological Survey and the National Museum of Wales. This will be the first time these materials have been gathered together in at least 150 years.
Venue
The Geological Society
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London
W1J 0BG
and
UCL Earth Sciences
5 Gower Place
London
WC1E 6BS