Geological Society of London

Burlington House

The Geological Society of London är ett geologiskt sällskap i London. Sällskapet, som grundades 1807, är världens äldsta nationella geologiska sällskap och har över 9000 ledamöter.

Sällskapet har sedan 1874 varit baserat i Burlington House vid Piccadilly i London. Sällskapet utdelar en rad medaljer, av vilka Wollastonmedaljen, Lyellmedaljen, Murchisonmedaljen och Bigsbymedaljen är de mest kända.


Presidenter

  • 1807–1813 George Bellas Greenough
  • 1813–1815 Henry Grey Bennet
  • 1815–1816 William Blake
  • 1816–1818 John MacCulloch
  • 1818–1820 George Bellas Greenough
  • 1820–1822 Spencer Compton
  • 1822–1824 William Babington
  • 1824–1826 William Buckland
  • 1826–1827 John Bostock
  • 1827–1829 William Henry Fitton
  • 1829–1831 Adam Sedgwick
  • 1831–1833 Roderick Impey Murchison
  • 1833–1835 George Bellas Greenough
  • 1835–1837 Charles Lyell
  • 1837–1839 William Whewell
  • 1839–1841 William Buckland
  • 1841–1843 Roderick Impey Murchison
  • 1843–1845 Henry Warburton
  • 1845–1847 Leonard Horner
  • 1847–1849 Henry Thomas De la Beche
  • 1849–1851 Charles Lyell
  • 1851–1853 William Hopkins
  • 1853–1854 Edward Forbes
  • 1854–1856 William John Hamilton
  • 1856–1856 Daniel Sharpe
  • 1856–1858 Joseph Ellison Portlock
  • 1858–1860 John Phillips
  • 1860–1862 Leonard Horner
  • 1862–1864 Andrew Crombie Ramsay
  • 1864–1866 William John Hamilton
  • 1866–1868 Warington Wilkinson Smyth
  • 1868–1870 Thomas Henry Huxley
  • 1870–1872 Joseph Prestwich
  • 1872–1874 George Douglas Campbell, 8:e hertig av Argyll
  • 1874–1876 John Evans
  • 1876–1878 Peter Martin Duncan
  • 1878–1880 Henry Clifton Sorby
  • 1880–1882 Robert Etheridge
  • 1882–1884 John Whitaker Hulke
  • 1884–1886 Thomas George Bonney
  • 1886–1888 John Wesley Judd
  • 1888–1890 William Thomas Blanford
  • 1890–1892 Archibald Geikie
  • 1892–1894 Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston
  • 1894–1896 Henry Woodward
  • 1896–1898 Henry Hicks
  • 1898–1900 William Whitaker
  • 1900–1902 Jethro Justinian Harris Teall
  • 1902–1904 Charles Lapworth
  • 1904–1906 John Edward Marr
  • 1906–1908 Archibald Geikie
  • 1908–1910 William Johnson Sollas
  • 1910–1912 William Whitehead Watts
  • 1912–1914 Aubrey Strahan
  • 1914–1916 Arthur Smith Woodward
  • 1916–1918 Alfred Harker
  • 1918–1920 George William Lamplugh
  • 1920–1922 Richard Dixon Oldham
  • 1922–1924 Albert Charles Seward
  • 1924–1926 John William Evans
  • 1926–1928 Francis Arthur Bather
  • 1928–1930 John Walter Gregory
  • 1930–1932 Edmund Johnston Garwood
  • 1932–1934 Thomas Henry Holland
  • 1934–1936 John Frederick Norman Green
  • 1936–1938 Owen Thomas Jones
  • 1938–1940 Henry Hurd Swinnerton
  • 1940–1941 Percy George Hamnall Boswell
  • 1941–1943 Herbert Leader Hawkins
  • 1943–1945 William George Fearnsides
  • 1945–1947 Arthur Elijah Trueman
  • 1947–1949 Herbert Harold Read
  • 1949–1950 Cecil Edgar Tilley
  • 1950–1951 Owen Thomas Jones
  • 1951–1953 George Martin Lees
  • 1953–1955 William Bernard Robinson King
  • 1955–1956 Walter Campbell Smith
  • 1956–1958 Leonard Hawkes
  • 1958–1960 Cyril James Stubblefield
  • 1960–1962 Sydney Ewart Hollingworth
  • 1962–1964 Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman
  • 1964–1966 Frederick William Shotton
  • 1966–1968 Kingsley Charles Dunham
  • 1968–1970 Thomas Neville George
  • 1970–1972 William Alexander Deer
  • 1972–1974 Thomas Stanley Westoll
  • 1974–1976 Percy Edward Kent
  • 1976–1978 Wallace Spencer Pitcher
  • 1978–1980 Percival Allen
  • 1980–1982 Edward Howel Francis
  • 1982–1984 Janet Vida Watson
  • 1984–1986 Charles Hepworth Holland
  • 1986–1988 Bernard Elgey Leake
  • 1988–1990 Derek John Blundell
  • 1990–1992 Anthony Leonard Harris
  • 1992–1994 Charles David Curtis
  • 1994–1996 Stephen Sparks
  • 1996–1998 Richard Frederick Paynter Hardman
  • 1998–2000 Robin Cocks
  • 2000–2002 Ronald Oxburgh
  • 2002–2004 Mark Moody-Stuart
  • 2004–2006 Peter Styles
  • 2006–2008 Richard Fortey
  • 2008–2010 Lynne Frostick
  • 2010-2012 Julian Patrick Bryan Lovell
  • 2012-2014 David Thomas Shilston

Externa länkar

  • The Geological Society of London