Société géologique de France
The Société géologique de France ( SGF ), founded on March 17, 1830 is a French non-profit geoscience society with about 1450 members (as of 2009).
History
The company was founded by a group led by Constant Prévost, including Ami Boué (1794-1881) and Jules Desnoyers ( 1800-1887 ). The founding statutes set as targets, " ... to contribute to the promotion of the sciences of the earth and the planets, both through its own power and through relations with the industry, agriculture, the environment and education. " At this time, the geology operated in France mainly under the suzerainty of the Corps des Mines and the Académie des sciences. In August 1830 Prévost company presented the new King Louis -Philippe I, who had ascended the throne in 1830 after the end of the July Revolution. He stressed the freedom of thoughts and actions that should be granted to the members: " Your Highness, the sciences need the freedom to flourish. " This did not refer to political freedom, but the freedom from the other scientific societies of this time. This was especially true of the Academy of Sciences and its President Georges Cuvier, whose pursued by Starrsin fixistischen ideas or interfere with the study of other schools of thought, such as the ideas of Lamarck. The king granted the Company's profit on 3 April 1832.
The Company
The first board consisted of Louis Cordier, André de Villiers Brochant, Alexandre Brongniart, Armand Dufrenoy, Léonce Élie de Beaumont and Henri -Marie de Blainville Ducrotay. Faithful to the conception of scientific freedom, the members were not all Lamarckists: freedom of expression was maintained high and respects the individuality of the members. So Alcide d' Orbigny about, a staunch Katastrophist in 1843 was elected president. The company quickly became known beyond the borders of France, so that in 1850 more than one third of the members were not Frenchmen, among them Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell and Roderick Murchison.
The SGF has four specialized subdivisions: volcanology and marine sciences are pure research sections, while the section for the dissemination of Earth Sciences ( geôle ) is also pursuing science policy goals. The Youth Section is aimed at students of geosciences, teachers, scholars, businessmen or lovers under 35 years. There are also four commissions.
Activities
Since its inception, the SBA published the Bulletin de la société géologique de France, and 1833-1912 the Mémoires de la société géologique de France. From 1890 to 1923 paleontological work in the Mémoires de la société géologique de France / Paleontology were published separately in order to then be reintegrated into the general Mémoires. The meeting reports first appeared in the Bulletin, to then appear from 1910 in Comptes rendus of the séances that were renamed in 1912 in Compte rendu de la société sommaire of séances géologique de France and from 1972 à 1997 Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. Compte rendu de la société sommaire of séances géologique de France. The Bulletin is still an internationally respected geoscience series with peer review. Other publications of the SGF are Géochronique and on the Reunion des Sciences de la Terre.
The Society organizes a biennial conference, the " Réunion des Sciences de la Terre " (Assembly of Geosciences ), and holds every year 16 scientific meetings. The Portail de la géologie, a website 15 different geo-scientific associations, was administered to 2006 by the SGF.
The SBA offers different academic awards, including named since 1910 after Albert GAUDRY ( 1827-1908 ) Gaudry Prix, the main prize of the Company.