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Nature 427, 397-398 (29 January 2004) | doi:10.1038/427397a
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Martin Rudwick1
BOOK REVIEWED-To See the Fellows Fight: Eye Witness Accounts of Meetings of the Geological Society of London and its Club, 1822–1868
edited by John C. Thackray
British Society for the History of Science (Monograph no. 12). 2003. 244 pp. £15, $26
The Geological Society of London, founded in 1807, was one of the first learned societies to be devoted to a specific science, and it was the first in the world to be devoted to geology. The most significant feature of its early meetings was one that nowadays we take for granted: it was agreed to allow discussion of the papers that were read.
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