The Plinian Society was a club at the University of Edinburgh for students interested in natural history. It was founded in 1823.[1] Several of its members went on to have prominent careers, most notably Charles Darwin who announced his first scientific discoveries at the society.[2]
Edinburgh University around 1827.
^Browne 1995, pp. 73–75
^"Darwin Online: Discourse to the Plinian Society". Retrieved 6 January 2009.
The PlinianSociety was a club at the University of Edinburgh for students interested in natural history. It was founded in 1823. Several of its members...
Plinian eruptions or Vesuvian eruptions are volcanic eruptions marked by their similarity to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which destroyed...
individual sense and consciousness is concerned, is material... — PlinianSociety, the deleted minutes, 27 March 1827. Mental dispositions are determined...
rainforest. In Darwin's second year at the university, he joined the PlinianSociety, a student natural-history group featuring lively debates in which...
Edinburgh in 1825–7, took part in phrenological discussions at the PlinianSociety and returned to Edinburgh in 1838 when formulating his concepts concerning...
types are Pelean eruptions, followed by Plinian eruptions; the strongest eruptions are called Ultra-Plinian. Subglacial and phreatic eruptions are defined...
took an active interest in natural history at the PlinianSociety. One of his proposers for the society was the radical William A. F. Browne, and on 27...
He was also elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Grant was a stalwart of the PlinianSociety for student naturalists, which Charles Darwin...
the latter in 1832. In Edinburgh, he became a notable member of the PlinianSociety, where he encountered the phrenologist William A.F. Browne and entered...
influential meetings of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, the Royal Medical Society and the PlinianSociety. Later, as superintendent of Sunnyside Royal Hospital...
History Academic dress Robert Reid Robert Rollock Edinburgh Seven PlinianSociety Polish School of Medicine Privileged bodies of the United Kingdom Combined...
was educated at the University of Edinburgh. In 1827, he joined the PlinianSociety, on the same day as Charles Darwin. Greg offered a talk to prove "the...
least 10 eruptions of VEI-7 in the last 11,700 years. There are also 58 Plinian eruptions, and 13 caldera-forming eruptions, of large, but unknown magnitudes...
the year it serves the Edinburgh University Students' Association as a societies centre, sports complex, student union bar and entertainment venue. Every...
"Stratigraphy and physical parameters of the Plinian phase of the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 128 (7–8): 1147–1159...
world. Eruptions tend to be violent and explosive; these are known as Plinian eruptions. Vesuvius has a long historic and literary tradition. It was...
founders of the Wernerian Society. Coldstream's love of natural history led to his election as a member of the student PlinianSociety on 18 March 1823; he...
same time, a Plinian dispersal of 8.8 km3 of rhyolitic tephra occurred depositing layers A and B. Episode II consisted of a second Plinian dispersal, but...
History Academic dress Robert Reid Robert Rollock Edinburgh Seven PlinianSociety Polish School of Medicine Privileged bodies of the United Kingdom Combined...
scientific investigations. In 1827 he was President of Edinburgh's PlinianSociety, a group of like-minded thinkers and scientists. In 1832 he inherited...
Inquiry into Science and Society, (March 2000). He was a member of the London Royal Society's Committee on Science in Society. He chaired a European Union...
flow activity. The Volcanic Explosivity Index was VEI-5, and it was a Plinian eruption that buried many villages under the resulting lava flows. Large...
History Academic dress Robert Reid Robert Rollock Edinburgh Seven PlinianSociety Polish School of Medicine Privileged bodies of the United Kingdom Combined...
where he filled the office of president in the Royal Physical society and the PlinianSociety. He then went to London and Paris, where he became an intern...
eruptions were not large, but later research has indicated that large Plinian eruptions also occurred. A series of eruptions about 200 years long took...
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