LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

POKING ITS NOSE INTO EVERYTHING—THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND COMMERCE

JOHN PLAYER'S ‘GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS’ OF 1764–1766, AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIETY OF ARTS JOURNAL MUSEUMRUSTICUM ET COMMERCIALE

THE SOCIETY OF ARTS MAP AWARDS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF GEOLOGICAL MAPPING

GEOLOGISTS JOHN FAREY AND WILLIAM SMITH AWARDED SILVER MEDALS FOR AGRICULTURE

NEGATIVE GEOLOGY: HUMPHRY DAVY AND FORMING THE ROYAL INSTITUTION'S MINERAL COLLECTION, 1803–1806

ILLUSTRATING THE IDEAL: CRYSTAL MODELS AND ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY

NATIONAL WATER SUPPLY, DEBATES BETWEEN GEOLOGISTS AND ENGINEERS AND THE ROLE OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS

PROMOTING ART, MANUFACTURES AND COMMERCE IN ONE—THE SOCIETY'S ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A BRITISH MARBLE INDUSTRY

EDWARD HITCHCOCK, RODERICK MURCHISON, AND REJECTION OF THE ALPINE GLACIAL THEORY (1840–1845)

THE PRUSSIAN GEOSCIENTIST, ENGINEER AND PAINTER AUGUST VON HEYDEN (1827–1897): AN ARTISTIC CHRONICLER OF THE WORLD OF MINING DURING THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY

ROBERT BEDFORD (1874–1951), THE KYANCUTTA MUSEUM, AND A UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION TO INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY

URSULA B. MARVIN (1921–2018), PLANETARY GEOLOGIST AND HISTORIAN OF GEOLOGY

LEONARD GILCHRIST WILSON (1928–2018)

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