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Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)

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Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)

[founded 1830]
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80152915
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Name Authority File
Collection Membership(s)
- Names Collection - Authorized Headings
- LC Names Collection - General Collection
Variants
- Royal Geographical Society, London
- Royal Geographic Society (Great Britain)
- RGS
Later Established Forms
- Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
Related Terms
- Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cn+80152915#skos:Concept
Earlier Established Forms
- Royal Geographical Society, London
Sources
- found: The Royal Geographical Society magazine, June 1997: p. 4 (RGS)
- found: Catalogue of map room of the Royal Geographic Society, 1881.
- found: BLNAL, Mar. 22, 2002 (hdg.: Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers); phone call to Society, 1 Nov. 2000: confirmed the full expanded form is to be used in all communications - Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers))
- found: RGS-IBG WWW Home page, Mar. 22, 2002: the Society (The Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers ... )) membership (The merger between the Royal Geographical Society and The Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) in 1995 ... )
General Notes
- [founded 1830]
Change Notes
- 1980-12-01: new
- 2013-02-08: revised

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