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 Philosophical Society of Glasgow Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow is a learned society established in 1802 ""for the improvement of the Arts and Sciences"" in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It runs a programme of lectures, starting its 217th Series in October 2018. The Society formerly owned a building on Bath Street, but since 1994 has been accommodated within the University of Strathclyde. The Society was founded in 1802 as the Glasgow Philosophical Society by a meeting of sixty people in the former Assembly Rooms, and work began establishing a library collection. The Society was housed in various