Excerpt from History of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, 1837-1887: With Biographical Notices of Some of Its Members
With the close of the first fifty years of the existence of this Society and the celebration of its Jubilee, came a desire that its history, so far as it could be gleaned, together with some notice of its principal members, should be written; the Council of the Society did me the honour to place this important trust in my hands. The work has presented some difficulties, and reliable information referring to its early years has proved scarce, notwithstanding this it is hoped that a work of some interest, even beyond the circle of the members of the Society, has been produced.
The history of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society comprises a period during which the development of Geological science has been very rapid. Little more than twenty years previously William Smith was laboriously laying the foundations of stratigraphical geology, and deducing the sequence of the rocks by comparing those of East Yorkshire with the strata he knew so well in the neighbourhood of Bath. Professor Adam Sedgwick ten years before the foundation of the Society had communicated to the Geological Society of London the result of his researches on the Magnesian Limestone of Yorkshire; and during the early years of the Society's existence Professor John Phillips wrote his classical description of the Sea Coast and the Mountain Limestone of the county. Dean Buckland in 1823 published the Reliqu? Diluviana, in which he recorded the investigation of the Kirkdale Cave, the first systematic exploration of the kind carried out in this country. Since that time a marvellous expansion of the science has taken place, and its ramifications extend over nearly the whole surface of the globe.
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