The Wernerian Natural History Society (12 January 1808 – 16 April 1858), commonly abbreviated as the Wernerian Society, was a learned society interested in the broad field of natural history, and saw papers presented on various topics such as mineralogy, plants, insects, and scholarly expeditions. The Society was an offshoot of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and from its beginnings it was a rather elite organization.
The Society was named after Abraham Gottlob Werner, a German geologist who was a creator of Neptunism, a theory of superposition based on a receding primordial ocean that had deposited all the rocks in the crust.[1] At this time all rocks, including basalt, and crystalline substances were thought by some to be precipitated from solution.[2]
^Scholarly Societies Project Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine, Wernerian Natural History Society.
^Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology & the Environment Archived 2007-06-12 at the Wayback Machine, Records of the Wernerian Natural History Society, UK.
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fossil skeleton, discovered at Whitby in February 1819". WernerianNaturalHistorySociety Memoirs. 3: 450–457. Hawkins, T. H., 1834, Memoirs on Ichthyosauri...
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the Extra-tropical Part of Southern Africa". Memoirs of the WernerianNaturalHistorySociety. 5: 206–219 – via Internet Archive. RCSEd Minute Book 1824...
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Brown, Robert (1811). "On the Asclepiadeæ". Memoirs of the WernerianNaturalHistorySociety. I: 12–78. Retrieved 2020-03-17. Genaust, Helmut (1996). Etymologisches...
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