Past Meetings
The History of Geology Group
Past meetings to the History of Geology Group
Details of meetings and events previously held by the History of Geology Group.
Conference/seminar abstracts are published in a booklet. Field meetings are accompanied with a field guide. Some of these meetings booklets are available for download.
HOGG online lunchtime talk: Geology and Hospital Planning: A Crimean War Map by Dr Beverly Bergman
Dr Beverly Bergman takes up the story of the 'Nightingale Hospital' that was mentioned briefly in the 2020 HOGG AGM talk on Brunel: the Geologist. This pioneering pre-fabricated building was designed by Brunel and shipped out to the Dardanelles. The talk will focus on the selection of the site for the hospital and the survey that was carried out by John Brunton, Brunel's engineer on the project.
Edward Greenly and the Geology of Anglesey – a centenary meeting – CANCELLED
2020 marks one hundred years since the publication of the Geological Survey map of Anglesey. The memoir ‘The Geology of Anglesey’ was published the year before. Both these were the work of Edward Greenly, with the support of his very able wife, Annie, over the previous 25 years to map the geology of Anglesey in great detail. Greenly was the master of mapping at six inches to the mile, and he would produce a book on ‘Geological Surveying’ a decade later that would become a standard in how to do geological mapping.
The genesis of geology in York and beyond
HOGG 25th Anniversary Meeting organised jointly with the Yorkshire Philosophical Society and York Museums Trust.
Aspects of the History of Geology in Scotland and the North of England
This meeting will comprise a day of presentations (Thursday 11th July) followed by a field day (Friday 12th) featuring a walking tour, taking in sites linked with the history of geology around the city, as well as Hutton’s Section on Salisbury Crags.