The society is organising a return excursion to Islay in April 2020. Priority will be given to members who could not come on the 2019 trip because it was fully booked.
The society is organising a return excursion to Islay in April 2020. Priority will be given to members who could not come on the 2019 trip because it was fully booked.
An obituary for Ben Browne, who was a member of the society for 33 years and died in May 2019, is now available on the website.
The Hugh Miller Writing Competition 2019-2020 is launched today. The competition aims to inspire new prose and poetry on the theme of Scotland’s geoheritage.
The Anniversaries page has been updated with extracts from the Proceedings for the anniversary years for the current session.
The Proceedings and excursion reports for Session 160 (2017-2018) are now available on the website.
The society’s website has been upgraded to make it more readable on different sizes of display. New features include an interactive geological map and an events calendar.
The export bar on Charles Lyell’s notebooks has been extended to 15 October 2019 and the purchase price reduced to £966,000.
The North West Highlands Geopark newsletter for July 2019 is now available.
Iain Allison has revised the prospectus for the proposed excursion to West Greenland in June/July 2020 to reduce the cost.
The University of Edinburgh is organising a fundraising campaign to save Charles Lyell’s notebooks, which are due to be sold abroad.