GEOLOGY IN THE HISTORY OF PROVINCIAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
GEOLOGY IN THE HISTORY OF PROVINCIAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, to be held in Manchester on Friday 9th April. The registration fee is just £5 and the deadline for returning the registration form is 31st March. See below for programme and registration form. For further information contact Leucha Veneer:
leucha.veneer@manchester.ac.uk
GEOLOGY IN THE HISTORY OF PROVINCIAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
FRIDAY 9th APRIL 2010
WILLIAMSON BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, OXFORD ROAD, MANCHESTER, M13 9PL
PROGRAMME
9.30-10.00 Coffee and registration
10.00-10.30 Short welcome from Alan Bowden followed by
John POLLARD The contributions of Edward Binney FRS FGS, the geologist, to the Manchester scientific scene and societies 1836-1881
10.30-11.00 Geoff TRESISE Liverpool: a tale of two societies 1860-1910
11.00-11.15 Short break
11.15-12.00 Simon KNELL Keynote Address
12.00-13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
13.00-13.30 Ronald AUSTIN Geology in the history of scientific societies in Swansea, South Wales
13.30-14.00 Noel WORLEY The Yorkshire Geological Society: its history and contribution to geological science
14.00-14.30 Patrick BOYLAN Geology and the Leicester Lit. & Phil., 1835-2010
14.30-14.55 THE WOOLHOPE CLUB’S DVD Picnic in Siluria
14.55-15.30 Hugh TORRENS A forgotten English museological initiative: the Midland counties natural history societies and museums of the 1830s 15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-16.30 Norman BUTCHER The Devonshire Association - a unique organisation
16.30-17.00 Simon NAYLOR The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall and the mapping of Cornwall’s geology
17.00-17.30 Cynthia BUREK Geology in the Chester Society of Natural History
17.30-18.00 Stephen DONOVAN Lawrence Chubb, Verners Zans and the Jamaica Group of the Geologists’ Association (1955-1959)
18.00 Close
I/we wish to register for the Geology in the History of Provincial Scientific Societies meeting on
Friday 9th April 2010.
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