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London's societies, institutes and universities, and the doors they open to everyone else: lecture theatres, libraries, collections and free exhibitions at institutions that have been arguing about the world since the seventeenth century. Most of it costs nothing. Events are also listed under What's On.
Talks and exhibitions this week are in What's On
The oldest geological society in the world, founded 1807, with a lecture programme and a library in Burlington House.
Public talksLibrary you can useWorth it for the building
It was founded in 1807 by thirteen men dining at the Freemasons Tavern, at a moment when the age of the Earth was an open question and the evidence for answering it was being dug out of English quarries. The Society ran the argument through its meetings, and the map William Smith made of the strata of England and Wales - the first geological map of a country anywhere - hangs in the building.
The programme now is conferences, lectures and public events across the earth and planetary sciences, and the library is one of the largest geological collections in the world.
Open for lectures, conferences and events; the library is used by arrangement.
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