Minute Book No 9

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-43/1/9
• Dates of Creation:1897-1924
• Name of Creator:
  Edinburgh Geological Society
• Physical Description:
  1 volume

• Scope and Content

  Volume containing minutes of ordinary meetings and details of the Society's business. This includes the nomination and election of members such as Henry Briggs in 1908. It also details excursions taken by the society, including one lead by Benjamin Neeve Peach to Lanarkshire. Papers read at meetings and publications in Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society are also covered. There is also an obituary to Charles Lapworth.

  Presidents during this period included John Horne, Henry Moubray Cadell, John George Goodchild, Benjamin Neeve Peach, John Smith Flett, Thomas John Jehu and Edward Battersby Bailey.

  A large number of items are pasted into the notebook. These include billets of meetings, billets of excursions, lists of office-bearers and reports by office-bearers. Newspaper clippings, giving full reports of business and transcripts of the papers read, are included after most of the minutes.

• Subjects

  Meetings

  Membership

  Nominations for Membership

  Scholarly Publishing

  Societies, Geological

• Personal Names

  Bailey, Edward Battersby, 1881-: (director of the British Geological Survey)

  Briggs, Henry, 1883-1935 (Hood Professor of Mining at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Mining at Heriot-Watt College)

  Cadell, Henry Moubray, 1860-1934 (geologist)

  Flett, Sir John Smith, 1869-1947 (geologist)

  Goodchild, John George, 1844-1906 (geologist)

  Horne, John, 1848-1928 (geologist)

  Jehu, Thomas John, 1871-1943 (regius professor of geology and mineralogy, University of Edinburgh)

  Peach, Benjamin Neeve, 1842-1926 (geologist)

• Corporate Names

  Edinburgh Geological Society

• Genre/Form

  Corporate Minutes

• Geographical Names

  Lanarkshire, Scotland