Full programme
SHELLS AT HASLEMERE EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM
A day meeting of the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland, inviting other naturalists and anyone interested in shells and collections.
Saturday 21 November 2015
11.00am - 4.00 pm
At Haslemere Educational Museum, High Street, Haslemere, Surrey.
Incorporating talks, gallery tours, shell road show, and snail trail.
11.00 Arrival and coffee
11.20 Welcome
11.30 Shell collections at Haslemere Museum: E W Swanton Conchologist and Curator
June Chatfield (Conchological Society and Haslemere Educational Museum)
12.00 Shells in the ethnological collections
Julia Tanner (Curator, Haslemere Educational Museum)
Followed by gallery tours and exhibits
12.45 LUNCH (Own arrangements – bring packed lunch, or eat in the town)
2.30 – 3.00 Shell Roadshow (Lecture room)
Bring a shell for comment or identification by conchologists
3.15 – 3.45 Fossil molluscs in the Geology Gallery
Please drop in for whichever part of the programme interests you. Children welcome for the afternoon. There is no charge. The Museum gift shop has a good selection of Christmas presents.
Trains and buses to Haslemere, by car off the A3, use public car parks in the town. Town map, The museum is less than a mile from Haslemere railway station
June Chatfield (01420 82214; collections@haslemeremuseum.co.uk