Royal Geological Society of Cornwall Royal Geological Society of Cornwall The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall is a geological society based in Penzance, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1814 to promote the study of the geology of Cornwall, and is the second oldest geological society in the world, after the Geological Society of London which was founded in 1807. The first President of the society was Davies Gilbert, the first Secretary John Ayrton Paris, and other notable members include Humphry Davy (some of whose papers are held by the Society), and William Gregor, who discovered titanium. The society's first premises was
Royal Geological Society of Ireland 1862). The Dublin clergyman Maxwell Henry Close read a paper before the society in 1866, on the "General Glaciation of Ireland", a masterly description of the effects of glaciation, and of the evidence in favor of the action of land-ice. He became president of the society in 1878. The society gained royal patronage and a change in title in 1864. The Society did not admit women members. Throughout the latter decades of the century, for several reasons, membership slowly declined and the society was wound up in 1894. Royal Geological Society of Ireland The Royal Geological Society of Ireland traces