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The Society was founded in 1807 . It was partly the outcome of a previous club known as the Askesian Society , and among the more prominent founders were William Babington , Humphry Davy and George Bellas Greenough . It received its Royal Charter in 1825 from George IV . In 1831 it began issuing an annual scientific award for geology, known as the Wollaston Medal . This is still the Society's premier medal, which in 2006 will be awarded to James Lovelock, the co founder of the so-called "Gaia Hypothesis". Since 1874 the Society has been based at Burlington House , Piccadilly , London . It is a member of the UK Science Council . As the Society prepares for its bicentennial celebrations in 2007 a number of programmes are in hand to raise the profile of the geosciences in Britain and abroad under the auspices of the well-known popular science writer and palaeontologist Professor Richard Fortey , the President over that year. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINK |
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