User:Myosotisx13/British Ecological Society

The Society evolved out of the British Vegetation Committee, which was founded in 1904 to promote the survey and study of vegetation in the British Isles. This initiative was in turn the outcome of what many historians perceive to have been the emergence of modern ecology in the 1890s. The British Ecological Society's inaugural meeting was held at University College London on 12 April 1913 and was attended by 47 members. Sir Arthur Tansley became the first President and the first issue of Journal of Ecology was printed in time for the meeting.

The Society faced several setbacks and was largely impacted by the events of World War I, as it formed the year prior to its beginning.

In its early days the society shared the London offices of The Linnean Society.