Palaeontographical Society
The Palaeontographical Society is a British paleontological society founded in 1847 and based in London . It is the oldest paleontological organization still in existence.
The founding initiator was James Scott Bowerbank , who also became Honorary Secretary. The first president was Henry Thomas de la Beche and prominent early members were Charles Lyell , Gideon Mantell , Roderick Murchison and Adam Sedgwick , Richard Owen and Charles Darwin .
One of its main tasks is the publication of monographs on fossil fauna and flora of the UK and the first monograph was published in 1848 and until 2014 643 monographs have been published, including by Charles Darwin on barnacles (1854) and the barnacles Lepadidae (1852) and Richard Owen about dinosaurs (1869). In this context, it also provides financial support for research work. There is an annual meeting.
Starting in 2014, they will award the Palaeontographical Society Medal every two years and, in particular, support work on taxonomy and systematic paleontology in Great Britain and Ireland.
Palaeontographical Society Medal
- 2014 William James Kennedy , Director of the Museum of Natural History at Oxford and Professor at the University of Oxford, as a leading international expert on ammonites from chalk and stratigraphy of marine deposits from chalk
- 2016 Adrian WA Rushton , British Geological Survey, an expert on stratigraphy of the Lower Paleozoic Era in Great Britain