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The Geographical Society was founded at a meeting on 15 December 1821 in the Paris Hôtel de Ville.Among its 217 founders were some of the greatest scientific names of the time, including 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, and ...
The National Geographic Society was founded in the United States in 1888 and began publication of the National Geographic magazine which became and continues to be a great popularizer of geographic information. The society has long supported geographic research and education.
The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic, published its first issue in October 1888, nine months after the Society was founded, as the Society's official journal, a benefit for joining the tax-exempt National Geographic Society. Starting with the February 1910 (Vol XXI, No. 2) issue, the magazine began using its ...
A 1740 map of Paris. Ortelius World Map, 1570. Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time. [1] In its modern form, it is a synthesizing discipline which shares both topical and methodological similarities with history, anthropology, ecology, geology, environmental studies, literary studies, and other fields.
Saudi Geographical Society; Scottish Meteorological Society; Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística; Società Geografica Italiana; Société de Géographie; Société Royale Belge de Géographie; Society for the History of Discoveries; Society of Cartographers; Society of Woman Geographers; Survey of Israel; Survey of Pakistan; Survey ...
The RGSSA's Library is one of the South Australia's most significant cultural assets and one of the Society's key resources. [citation needed]It gathers together in one place accounts of the historical geography of human settlement from out of Africa to Europe, the Americas, the Far East, and Oceania.
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Most fellows of the society are Americans, but among them have always been a significant number of fellows from around the world. [2] The society encourages activities that expands geographical knowledge, and the interpretation of that knowledge so that it can be useful to geographers and other disciplines, especially in a policymaking environment.