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The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences, the society has 16,000 [ 1 ] members, with its work reaching the public through publications ...
Rates of travel in America, 1800 to 1930. [7] plate 138, page 366) Francis Galton's first known isochronic map published for the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 1881. It shows the travel times in 1881 from London, United Kingdom to different parts of the world in days. It assumes that there are favourable travel conditions and ...
The American Geographical Society (AGS) is an organization of professional geographers, founded in 1851 in New York City. Most fellows of the society are Americans , but among them have always been a significant number of fellows from around the world. [ 2 ]
American Geographical Society; Association of American Geographers; Association of Pacific Coast Geographers; National Council for Geographic Education; National Geographic Society; Society of Woman Geographers
In 1863 he received the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society, which was what the Geographical Society of London was known as after gaining the patronage of King William IV. He died at home in Hereford Square, South Kensington, London on 1 May 1873. [8]
He was a member of the American Geographical Society and the Royal Geographical Society. [11] Harrison produced several maps to illustrate Nicholas Spykman's America's Strategy in World Politics, a foundational work of 20th century geopolitics. [12]
With the support of the British government and the Royal Geographical Society it became an official expedition with the stated purpose of gathering scientific information about the landscapes of British-claimed north-western North America (today's western Canada), in particular the territory of Rupert's Land, including information on the ...
The son Alexander George Findlay devoted himself to the compilation of geographical and hydrographical works. On the death of John Purdy, the hydrographer, in 1843, he took a leading position. In 1844 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and was a member of its council and committees.