Geology collection
The Geology Collection offered on SorbonNum comes from the former CADIST of Earth Sciences which became the Geosciences library (whose collections are labelled CollEx). Its collections have been formed over time and, in particular have been issued by several laboratories and laboratory libraries (the Sorbonne geology laboratory, known as the 'Lucas collection', the vertebrate palaeontology laboratory, the petrology laboratory, the IMPMC library, etc.) and from the personal libraries of professors (Hébert, Vélain, etc.).
The digitised collection, which consists of many unica, gathers a set of texts which demonstrate the variety of French and foreign geological heritage: travel accounts, lecture notes, theoretical works, bibliographical materials (Titles and Works), illustrated descriptions etc. So many documents gathered by history and geology specialists, but also publications from the Geological Society of France, founded in 1830 (Mémoires et Bulletin de la société Géologique de France) and from other institutions.
Geology: history and teaching
The collection of texts on the history of geology consists mainly of printed monographs in French, a few offprints and two manuscripts, ranging from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century. This collection brings together a set of founding texts on the history of earth sciences and their teaching, tracing the birth of the discipline and its first developments.
Thematic geology
The most represented fields are of course general geology, theories of the earth, palaeontology, stratigraphy and mineralogy.
Regional geology
The corpus presented was compiled by several research professors from Sorbonne University, reflecting the diversity of heritage in France and abroad. The books and maps present descriptions, indexes and illustrations representing all the regions in the world and constitute a memoir of the territories. Colonial history is represented with a collection specialised in Indochina before 1920, including the digitisation of two periodicals, the Bulletin du Service géologique de l’Indochine (Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Indochina) and the Mémoires du Service géologique de l’Indochine (Memories of the Geological Survey of Indochina), monographs and maps.
Publications from learned societies
Geological Society of France
The statutes of the Geological Society of France, founded in 1830, state that its aim is "to contribute to the advancement of Earth and Planetary Sciences, both itself and in its relationships with industry, agriculture, the environment and education". Recognised as a public utility in 1832, the SGF published the 'Bulletin de la Société géologique de France’ (Bulletin of the Geological Society of France) from its creation and, from 1833 onwards, the 'Mémoires de la Société géologique de France’ (Memoires of the Geological Society of France), publications which continue to this day. The digitisation of these journals was carried out on the old volumes of these titles, kept in the Geosciences library. Finally, the Mémoires de Paléontologie (Memoirs of Palaeontology) was created in 1890, and merged with les Mémoires in 1924. They contain 59 separate issues, with photographic plates of original samples (organisms, fauna, flora).
