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 Society of Victoria the centre of Melbourne. Royal Society of Victoria The Royal Society of Victoria (RSV) is the oldest learned society in the state of Victoria in Australia. The Society was formed in 1854 as The Philosophical Institute of Victoria from a merger between "The Philosophical Society of Victoria" (inaugural president Captain Andrew Clarke) and "The Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science" (inaugural president Justice Sir Redmond Barry), both founded independently earlier in 1854 and found to be serving similar aims and membership. The Philosophical Institute received Royal Charter in 1859, and the first president of the freshly renamed Royal Society