Episode 2 of 2
Inaugural Meeting
- When
- 2 March 1808
- Where
- Edinburgh
The first meeting of the society occurred on 2 March 1808 in Edinburgh, marking the start of its active operations.
The first meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society occurred on 2 March 1808. This event followed the formal founding date of 12 January. The society was named after Abraham Gottlob Werner, a German geologist and creator of Neptunism, a theory of superposition based on a receding primordial ocean.
Sources
- Wernerian Natural History Society Wikipedia, revision of 2026-03-28
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