Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne i działalność w zakresie mineralogii w ośrodku krakowskim
Abstract
POLISH MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY AND ITS ACTIVITY IN THE FIELD OF MINERALOGY IN THE CRACOW CENTER
Summary
Polish Mineralogical Society with the seat in Cracow was established in 1969. A similar function, from the point of view of scientific activity, up to 1969 had a Commission of Mineralogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow, established in 1964 and gathering most of Polish mineralogists. As the author is familiar with both organizations, he is trying to characterize their experience and contribution in relation to the whole mineralogical community of Cracow. The study indicates that Cracow is the oldest, continuously acting center of mineralogical studies in Poland, since as far back as 1811. After World War II some center of mineralogical sciences was established in Warsaw. However, in the last few years the Warsaw and the Cracow centers followed different lines of development and activity; the Warsaw center went in the direction of petrography and geochemistry, and the Cracow center specialized in mineralogy. The latter has now become the only center prepared theoretically and practically to solve mineralogical problems in Poland.
Summary
Polish Mineralogical Society with the seat in Cracow was established in 1969. A similar function, from the point of view of scientific activity, up to 1969 had a Commission of Mineralogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow, established in 1964 and gathering most of Polish mineralogists. As the author is familiar with both organizations, he is trying to characterize their experience and contribution in relation to the whole mineralogical community of Cracow. The study indicates that Cracow is the oldest, continuously acting center of mineralogical studies in Poland, since as far back as 1811. After World War II some center of mineralogical sciences was established in Warsaw. However, in the last few years the Warsaw and the Cracow centers followed different lines of development and activity; the Warsaw center went in the direction of petrography and geochemistry, and the Cracow center specialized in mineralogy. The latter has now become the only center prepared theoretically and practically to solve mineralogical problems in Poland.