We are pleased to welcome the Society once again to Cardiff and to Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. This year we are looking forward to seven talks by members on recent discoveries on marine, terrestrial, and freshwater molluscs (see programme below).
Transport and visitor information for the Museum is at: https://museum.wales/cardiff/visit/. The Museum's main doors open at 10:00 am (entry is free). The meeting room is the Clore Learning Space, at the far end of the ground floor Natural History galleries (walk past the cliff and woodland dioramas, and head for the glass wall with the primate skeletons).
Tea and coffee will be provided, but please make your own arrangements for lunch (the Museum's restaurant and café will be open).
Please let either ben.rowson@museumwales.ac.uk or anna.holmes@museumwales.ac.uk know if you are planning to attend, or would like to bring any members' exhibits.
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PROGRAMME
10:30 Evelyn Moorkens Studies of Irish freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera) populations
10:50 Bas Payne Conchological Society Field Trip to The iIles of Scilly, September 2019
11:10 Brian Coles Worldwide Diversity & Biogeography of Vertigo
11:30 TEA BREAK
11:45 Ben Rowson New snails from the “sky islands” of Kenya (Ethiopia, & Tanzania)
12:05 Anna Holmes Rafting of Atlantic bivalves
12:25 Harry Powell Brought to the Surface: a new beginning for freshwater snail identification
12:45 Graham Oliver John Adams of Pembroke, a forgotten Welsh naturalist and conchologist
13:05 LUNCH
14:30 Behind the scenes in Mollusca, including a look at the E. O. Bishop collection
15:30 END
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(A meeting of the Conservation and Recording Committee will be held on the day before (Friday 15 November), followed by a workshop on NBN and molluscan records led by Sophie Ratcliffe. If members who are not members of CRC are interested in interested in attending this workshop, please contact Martin Willing (martinjwilling@gmail.com).)
Anna Holmes (Anna.Holmes@museumwales.ac.uk) and Ben Rowson (Ben.Rowson@museumwales.ac.uk).