The Sedgwick Club is the official student geological society at the
University of Cambridge
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, and is the oldest student-run geological society in the world. It aims to promote the subject of
geology
Geology (). is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Earth ...
among its members through regular talks and social events. It is based in the
Department of Earth Sciences.
History
The club was founded in honour of
Adam Sedgwick in 1880. Almost every year after its foundation the Sedgwick Club ran yearly field excursions. Sets of notes, photos, sketches, maps and diagrams from these are kept in the Conservation Laboratories of the
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
This annual field trip has been replaced by the "Magical Mystery Tour" in modern times, which involves a weekend excursion at the beginning of Lent term to a location unknown to all on the tour except the club committee members. Careful minutes and accounts were taken throughout the whole history of the club, which have also survived and are held in The Sedgwick Museum. Women members were accepted in 1896.
Notable people
*
David Attenborough
*
Gertrude Elles[
* Vivian Fuchs
* ]Alfred Harker
Alfred Harker Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (19 February 1859 – 28 July 1939) was an English geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography. He was lecturer in petrology at the University of Cambridge for many years, a ...
* Dorothy Hill
* Thomas McKenny Hughes
* John Edward Marr
* William Whitehead Watts
* Alice Buxton Winnicott[
]
References
External links
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Clubs and societies of the University of Cambridge
Geology societies