The organizational meeting leading to the creation…
1808 CE
Interested in the broad field of natural history, the Society will see papers presented on various topics such as mineralogy, plants, insects, and scholarly expeditions.
The Society is an offshoot of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and from its beginnings it is a rather elite organization.
The Society is named after Abraham Gottlob Werner, a German geologist who is a creator of Neptunism, a theory of superposition based on a receding primordial ocean that had deposited all the rocks in the crust.
At this time all rocks, including basalt, and crystalline substances, are thought by some to be precipitated from solution.
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