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Records of Edinburgh Geological Society
    Minutes of General Meetings

Edinburgh University Library Special Collections Division

Minute Book No V

Item Summary

Reference Code

GB 0237 Edinburgh Geological Society MS 2917.5

Date(s)

16 January 1862 - 26 October 1863

Extent and medium of the unit of description

1

notebook

Name of creator

Edinburgh Geological Society | 1834-: | scientific society, Edinburgh (Scotland)

Scope and Content

Scope and Content

Notebook containing minutes of both council and general meetings, including an alphabetical index at the beginning of the book and 172 numbered pages.

Full details of the Society's business is recorded including: details of honorary, corresponding and normal membership, details of office-bearers and their election, financial details, reports on the Society's general business, plans and reports on a Conversazione held on 15 March 1863, details of donations for the Society's museum and library and the plans for housing and expanding these. Details of the election of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison as Patron are also included.

Pasted into the notebook are: the annual printed summer and winter syllabuses, the ticket and programme for the Conversazione and a programme for a course of 13 public lectures delivered by David Page on behalf of the Society in 1863-1864.

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