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Wernerian Natural History Society
The Wernerian Natural History Society (January 12, 1808 – April 16, 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.〔(Scholarly Societies Project ), Wernerian Natural History Society.〕 At this time all rocks, including basalt, and crystalline substances were thought by some to be precipitated from solution.〔(Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology & the Environment ), Records of the Wernerian Natural History Society, UK.〕
==History==
Robert Jameson, Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, was the founder and life president of the Society. In 1800, he spent a year at the mining academy in Freiberg, Saxony, where he studied under Werner. The Society was founded on 12 January 1808, and the first meeting of the Society occurred on 2 March 1808.〔〔Sweet, Jessie M. ''The Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh''. Freiberger Forschungshefte, Reihe C. (1967) 223: 205–218.〕 Between 1811 and 1839 eight volumes of ''Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society'' appeared. More than twelve of Jameson's papers on geology and mineralogy were published in these volumes, and he also contributed some on zoology and botany. Proceedings after 1839 were published in Jameson's ''Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal''.〔 The Society hosted many of the notable scientists of its day.
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