Firstly, a warm welcome if you have joined the Conchological Society recently. It is always a pleasure to welcome new or returning members and I hope you will be able to take the opportunity to join in some of our planned meetings and activities (see pages 30-31) whenever you can. If you have joined from overseas and cannot participate in this way,
hopefully you will find our publications of interest and of course you will always be welcome if you find yourself in the UK at the time of any of our activities. Oh, and don’t be afraid to submit something for publication in the magazine, however small (details of how to do this can be found on the back cover).
Don’t forget, if you are out and about in the coming months, to submit records of any molluscs found to our Marine or Non-Marine Recorders, as appropriate (for details see http://www.conchsoc.org/). It is always worthwhile recording occurrences of the common as well as more unusual species, since this may add valuable data on possible distribution and frequency changes.
Some of you may have caught a glimpse of Mollusc World on the BBC’s satirical News Quiz “Have I Got News for You” (series 40, episode 8) back in December last year. Comedian Lee Mack’s comment was that “It’s an OK magazine but not worth shelling out for...”! Putting this (fairly mild) pun aside, I hope you will agree that participating in membership of the Conchological Society is very worthwhile!
Finally I would like to thank Vicki Harley, Bas Payne and Janet Ridout Sharp for their helpful comments and proof reading relating to this issue.