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==== Royal Society ==== In November 1804 Davy became a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]], over which he would later preside. He was one of the founding members of the [[Geological Society of London]] in 1807<ref>[http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/society/history History of the Geological Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120907163746/http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/society/history |date=7 September 2012}} Geolsoc.org.uk</ref> and later became a Fellow.<ref>{{cite book |last=Woodward |first=Horace B. |author-link=Horace Bolingbroke Woodward |title=The History of the Geological Society of London |url=https://archive.org/details/historygeologic00wood/page/28/mode/2up?q=davy |year=1907 |publisher=Geological Society |location=London |page=29}}</ref> He was elected a foreign member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] and as an honorary member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1810,<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=John+Haighton&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713131601/https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=John+Haighton&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |archive-date=13 July 2021 |url-status=live |publisher=[[American Philosophical Society]] |access-date=2 April 2021}}</ref> and a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1822.<ref name="AAAS">{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780β2010: Chapter D|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterD.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=8 September 2016|archive-date=9 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809114018/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterD.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
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