- Société de Géographie
The Société de Géographie, Paris, is the world's oldest geographical society. [Other geographic societies were soon founded: Berlin (1828), London (1830), Frankfort (1836), St-Petersburg (1845), New York (1852), Vienna (1856), Geneva (1858), Mexico City (1859). ] It was founded at a meeting, 15 December 1821, in the
Paris Hôtel de Ville and among its 217 founders were some of the greatest scientific names of the time:Pierre-Simon Laplace , the Society's first president;Georges Cuvier ,Charles Pierre Chapsal , Vivant Denon,Joseph Fourier ,Gay-Lussac ,Claude Louis Berthollet ,Alexander von Humboldt ,Champollion ,François-René de Chateaubriand among them. Most of those men who had accompanied Bonaparte in his Egyptian expedition were members:Edmé François Jomard ,Conrad Malte-Brun ,Jules Dumont d'Urville ,Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert ,Hottinguer , Henri Didot,Bottin and others.The Society's revue has appeared since 1822, monthly, as "Bulletin de la Société de Géographie" (1822-1899)—offering in octavo format early news of all the discoveries of the nineteenth century—or quarterly, as "La Géographie", with a break in 1940-46. Since 1947 the Society's magazine has appeared three times a year, as "Acta Geographica". The Society's library, map collection and photograph collection are among the world's most comprehensive and deepest.
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* [http://www.socgeo.org/ Société de Géographie official site] (in French)
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