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
Proceedings of the Royal Society open access (under Creative Commons license) on payment of an article processing charge. The journal started out in 1800 as the "Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London". The Royal Society published four volumes, from 1800 to 1843. Volumes 5 and 6, which appeared from 1843 to 1854, were called "Abstracts of the Papers Communicated to the Royal Society of London". Starting with volume 7, in 1854, the Proceedings first appeared under the name "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London". Publication of the proceedings in this form continued to volume 75