Місія товариства [Архівовано 28 жовтня 2021 у Wayback Machine.] — 200-річчя товариства: 'That there be forthwith instituted a Geological Society for the purpose of making geologists acquainted with each other, of stimulating their zeal, of inducing them to adopt one nomenclature, of facilitating the communications of new facts and of ascertaining what is known in their science and what remains to be discovered.'
Місія товариства [Архівовано 28 жовтня 2021 у Wayback Machine.] — 200-річчя товариства: 'That there be forthwith instituted a Geological Society for the purpose of making geologists acquainted with each other, of stimulating their zeal, of inducing them to adopt one nomenclature, of facilitating the communications of new facts and of ascertaining what is known in their science and what remains to be discovered.'