Trivia Teaser …and speaking of aeronautical societies…

Question: What and when was the first technical society for the purpose of both establishing initial credibility for aeronautical researchers (and circumventing the issue of early researchers becoming increasingly disenfranchised from the established scientific community) as well as establishing a professional identity? A) the Societe Aerostatique et Meteorologique de France, 1852 B) the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, 1866 C) the Prussian subcommission of the Second International Congress of Aeronautics, 1900 D) the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, 1905