ABOUT
Liverpool
Geological Society
On 13th December 1859 nine men
met at 7 London Road, Liverpool,
the home of George Highfield
Moreton, a painter and decorator,
and agreed to the formation of The
Liverpool Geological Society. The
objects of the Society were
formulated "to investigate the
structure of the Earth, the character
of its past inhabitants, and the
changes now in progress upon its
surface" ...
A Past President and Member,
Professor Herdman and his wife
endowed a Chair of Geology in The
University of Liverpool in 1916 in
memory of their son Lieutenant
George Herdman who was killed in the First World War. With the
opening of a Department of Geology in 1929, again due to Professor
Herdman's generosity in memory of his wife, Jane, many meetings
were held in that building at the invitation of the first Professor PGH
Boswell. Meetings continued to be held in The University of
Liverpool's Jane Herdman Laboratories of Geology, until latterly,
ever increasing charges for overtime staff led to meetings being
moved once again to Liverpool John Moores University's Byrom
Street Campus.
© Liverpool Geological Society
Today, after more than 150 years, the Society still flourishes, and is still
composed overwhelmingly of ordinary people who have an interest in
geology in all its many aspects - from volcanoes to floods, deserts and
seas, mountains and glaciers, minerals and rocks, and fossils. Ever
since the Society's first open meeting, on 10th January 1860, The
Liverpool Geological Society has invited the knowledgeable and
famous to come and tell all those interested in the wonders of the
world and its even more amazing history, beginning some
4,600,000,000 years ago.
Registered Charity No: 500067