Geological Society of London purple plaque

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# The Birth of Modern Geology at The Freemasons' Tavern Standing before this elegant Georgian façade on Great Queen Street, you're positioned at the precise spot where geological science was born as a formal discipline. On that November evening in 1807, a group of passionate natural philosophers ga...

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61-65 Great Queen Street, WC2B 5DA

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13 November 1807. The first geological society in the world was inaugurated in a building on this site known as The Freemasons' Tavern