Serbia 2016 "125^th anniversary of the Serbian Geological Society"

Issue Date	23.02.2016
ID	Michel: 654; Scott: 734; Stanley Gibbons: Yvert et Tellier: 643; Category: pP
Design	Jaksa Vlahovic BA, Graphic Artist Expert collaboration: Prof. Dr. Zoran Stevanovic, President of the Serbian Geological Society
Stamps in set	1
Value	RSD 23 - portrait of Jovan Zujovic with the building the Serbian Geological Society on the background.
Emmision/Type	commemorative
Places of issue	Belgrade
Size (width x height)	37.50 mm x 30.0 mm
Layout	Mini Sheets of 8 stamps + 1 label
Products	FDC x1, MS x1
Paper
Perforation	13.25 x 13.25
Print Technique	Offset, 4 colours
Printed by	ZIN Belgrade
Quantity	25.000
Issuing Authority	Public Enterprise of PTT Srbija

On February 23^rd, 2016, the Post Authority of Serbia issued the stamp to commemorate 125^th Anniversary of the Serbian Geological Society. The building of the Society is shown on the background of the stamp and portrait of Jovan M. Zujovic, based on the painting by Uros Predic, is on the foreground.
The stamp was issued in a Mini-Sheet of eight with one label in the middle. The label shows a Perisphinctes ammonite, geological hammer and the medal with portrait of Zujovic.

The label from the middle of the Mini-Sheet

The Serbian Geological Society is one of our oldest scientific organizations and the first geologists’ society in the Balkans. At the time of its creation, there were only two more “learned societies” in Serbia – Serbian Medical Society and Serbian Archeological Society.
In the premises of the Belgrade Higher School, on 23 February 1891 a meeting was held when the participants decided to found a society with the index.html|Czechia task “to perform geological investigations of Serbia and other countries of the Balkan Peninsula and to inform its members and other interested parties about the achievement in the field of geology and affiliated sciences”. The name of the society was given by Sima Lozanic, a professor of chemistry at the Belgrade Higher School during his lectures in Germany.

The members of the Serbian Geological Society were many great scientists and explorers, who left an important mark in Serbian and world science: Jovan Zujovic (the founder of the Society, minister in several governments, rector of the Higher School, president of the Serbian Royal Academy), Jovan Cvijić (president of the Serbian Royal Academy), Sava Urošević (rector of the Higher School), Milutin Milanković (world authority in the field of climate and celestial mechanics), Vladimir Laskarev (one of the most eminent European geologists).

Jovan M. Zujovic (1856, Brusnica, Gornji Milanovac - Belgrade, 1936) was an anthropologist, known as a pioneer in geological and paleontological science in Serbia. He is known, among other things, for his work in anthropology.
In his book, "Stone Age", published in 1893, relying mostly on French scientists, he reviewed the contemporary state of knowledge in paleoanthropology. Later, between 1927 and 1929, in the book "Genesis of the Earth and Our Country", he wrote about the biological past of the Earth starting from the beginning of mankind. The work takes particular interest in the history of the Balkan peninsula.

Many initiatives were taken at the Serbian Geological Society and one of the most important was a systematic geological mapping of the country, the result of which was the Basic Geological Map of the entire territory of the ex – Yugoslavia, completed in the 1970s. Seismological Institute, Museum of Natural History, Geological Institute in Belgrade, as well as other scientific societies in Serbia were founded at the initiative of the Society’s members. In its history, the Society has become an active member of many international organizations where the views of geologists and geology of Serbia are supported: International Union of Geological Sciences, Association of European Geological Societies, European Federation of Geologists and Carpathian Balkan Geological Association.

Products and associated philatelic items

FDC	First-Day-of-Issue Postmark	Mini-Sheets
The reverse side is here
Circulated FDC
The registered letter was posted on the stamp issue date: 23.02.2016 with five stamps of paleontologist Jovan Zujovic and fossil of ammonite on the label in the middle. The price of 16gr. registered letter from Serbia to Germany is Dinar 224. Due to the fact the total value of stamps is Dinar 115 only, Dinar 109 paid by cash at post office - see top-right corner of the while label on bottom-left corner of the cover.	The regular letter posted on the stamp issue date: 23.02.2016 with three stamps of paleontologist Jovan Zujovic and fossil of ammonite on the label in the middle. The price of 15gr. regular letter from Serbia to Germany cost Dinar 74. Due to the fact the common value of three stamps is Dinar 69 only, Dinar 5 paid by cash at post office - see top-right corner of the while label on bottom-left corner of the cover.	The register letter posted on the stamp issue date: 23.02.2016 with entire Mini-Sheet ad four additional stamps of paleontologist Jovan Zujovic. A price of 68gr. register letter from Serbia to Germany cost Dinar 336. Due to the fact the total value of three stamps is Dinar 276 only, Dinar 60 paid by cash at post office - see top-right corner of the while label on bottom-left corner of the cover.

References

colnect, Back side of FDC covers, Wikipedia.

Acknowledgements:

Many thanks to Dr. Peter Voice from Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Western Michigan University, for reviewing the draft page.