GEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES. This account also includes mineralogical and palaeontological societies and institutions. The first International Congress of Geology took place at Bologna in 1878. The Geological Society of London, founded in 1807 and in corporated in 1826, is the largest and most important in Great Britain; it has published Proceedings (1834-1846), Transactions etc.), and a Quarterly Journal (1845, etc.) . The Geologists Association was instituted in 1858, and issues Proceedings (1859, etc.). The Mineralogical Society (1876) has united with it the Crystallogical Society; it issues the Mineralogical Magazine (1876, etc.). The Palaeontographical Society was founded in 1847 for the delineation and description of British fossils; it issues Publications (4to, 1847, etc.). The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (1814) devotes special attention to the mining interests of the county, and publishes Transactions (1818, etc.). It holds its meetings at Penzance. The Geological Society of Edinburgh (1834) issues Transactions (187o, etc.). The Royal Geological Society of Ireland (1832) principally studied the geology of the country. It published a Journal (1837, etc.) . There are also the Geological Associations of Leeds (18 i4) and Liverpool (1-88o), Trans., and the Societies of Liverpool (1859), Proc., and Man chester (1838), Trans.