The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932): Geologist, Writer and Explorer – B E Leake, 2011
Gregory’s remarkable career and his scientific work are detailed and critically assessed.
Author: Cogdiss
Military Aspects of Hydrogeology – E P F Rose and J D Mather (eds), 2012
This book contains 20 papers from authors in the UK, USA, Germany and Austria.
2012 December – Piltdown: 100 years on
One hundred years ago, Piltdown man was revealed to the world at a packed and excited meeting at the Geological Society of London on 18 December 1912. It was hailed as a very early species of human – possibly even a missing link between man and ape that Charles Darwin had predicted. It was of […]
2011 April – Geological collectors and collecting
HoGG conference on Geological Collectors and Collecting, held at the Natural History Museum London in April 2011. For abstracts and programme click here.
2010 April – Geology in the history of provincial scientific societies
April 2010 Provincial Societies meeting in Manchester Download the abstracts here.
Historical maps of the British Isles
The British Geological Survey has recently released scans of all the early hand-coloured maps of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland (1835-1905). During this period, the entire mapping output, at the basic scale of 1:63 360, or one inch to the mile, was produced as engraved sheets that were then hand-coloured. These historical […]
June 8, 1783: how the ‘Laki-eruptions’ changed history
Volcanoes are nothing unusual on Iceland, but the eruption that started 230 years ago on June 8, 1783 was one of the deadliest events we remember. Over a six-month period an estimated 14 cubic kilometres of lava poured out from a total of 135 fissures near the old crater ofLaki,[1] covering an estimated 2,500 square […]
Sue Tyler Friedman Medal 2013
This year the Geological Society of London has awarded its Sue Tyler Friedman Medal to Professor Henry (Hank) Frankel of the Department of Philosophy,UniversityofMissouri–Kansas City,USA. The award was established by Gerry Friedman in 1987 by a gift of the Northeastern Science Foundation Inc. of Troy,New York, and dedicated to his wife Sue Tyler Friedman. The […]
INHIGEO 2013 field trips — a few places left
A few places are still available on Field trips 2 and 3 and can be reserved on a first-come first-served basis by paying the full registration fee to HOGG by 15 June. Please see full details on the Inhigeo field trips webpages.
Rutherford's geophysicists
A Celebration of the work of Lord Blackett and Professor Sir Edward Bullard, on the Physics of the Earth. Although both were trained in nuclear physics, Patrick Blackett and Edward (Teddy) Bullard enjoyed careers that encompassed the Earth sciences. They were both convinced that Wegener’s ideas about continental drift had been right and their work […]