Palaeontographical Society

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The Palaeontographical Society is founded in 1847, British Paleontological Society, based in London. It is the oldest existing paleontological organization.

One of its main tasks is the publication of monographs on fossil fauna and flora of Great Britain and the first monograph was published in 1848 and by 2012 639 monographs have been published, including by Charles Darwin on barnacles (1854 ) and the barnacles Lepadidae (1852 ) and Richard Owen about dinosaurs (1869). It is also funding for research in this context.