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      • Collecting localities in the Cape Province
      • Field meeting Walton-on-Naze
      • Field meeting to Box Hill
      • Herons, Moorhens and Rats feeding on Anodonta anatina
      • Introduction
      • Introduction to molluscan taxonomy 1) Species and subspecies
      • Oyster Catchers feeding on Patella vulgata
      • Volutes
      • Issue 3
        • Introduction to molluscan taxonomy 2) The significance of types
        • Land and freshwater snails: additions to the British List since 1926
        • Littoral collecting in the Scilly Isles
        • Snails in a Sussex garden
      • Issue 4
        • Biographical Note
        • Introduction to molluscan taxonomy 3) The genus
        • Learning in Nucella lapillus
        • Mollusca on Liverpool bomb sites
        • The Cardiacea
        • The Strombidae
      • Issue 5
        • A suggested method for extracting the animals from small high-spired shells
        • Commensual crabs in Mytilus edulis
        • Field meeting at Shell Bay, Dorset
        • Field meeting at West Runton and Overstrand
        • Introduction to molluscan taxonomy 4) Taxonomic history
        • J.G. Bruguiere 1750-98
      • Issue 6
        • A little more biography
        • Field meeting at Amberley
        • Field meeting to Grasswood, Yorkshire May 1962
        • Marine collecting in New Zealand
        • Marine mollusca of Carnac, Brittany
        • On the use and misuse of common names
        • Strand shells after Cornish gales
        • Trochus magus in the Isle of Wight
      • Issue 7
        • 35 years collecting
        • Field meeting Epping Forest
        • Field meeting White Downs
        • More strand shells after Cornish gales
        • Natural History Museum at Craster
        • Notes on the pholadidae
      • Issue 8
        • Field meeting at Norwich
        • Geology for conchologists - Introduction
        • Geology for conchologists - The last 15,000 years
        • The Strophocheilidae
      • Issue 9
        • More autobiography
        • Sinistrorsity
        • Some etymology
        • Systematics sewn up
      • Issue 10
        • Field meeting at Norbury Park
        • Papers for students
        • Rearing snails from the egg
      • Issue 11
        • Field meeting at Leith Hill
        • Posting living mollusca
        • Snails extinct in England but living abroad
        • The Viviparidae
    • 'Papers for students' 1964 - 1991
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        • Distribution of the Slipper Limpet
        • Status of Phenacolimax major
        • Survey of Cellar slugs
        • Survey of Malacolimax tenellus
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Book sale 2013: unsold auction lots

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Many thanks to all those who bid in our last auction.  The unsold books are now for sale at prices below the auctiion reserves.

Meetings in Ireland

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This year the Society’s Regional Meeting and marine Field Meeting will both be held in County Waterford, Republic of Ireland. Details are available here (indoor meeting) and here (field meetings). 

What is Wild?

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Members may be interested in this upcoming seminar (7-8 May, Sheffield, UK) featuring contributions by Conchological Society members Keith Alexander and Mike Allen.
What is Wild - UKEconet-Wildtrack Publishing

Conchological Society Officers Reports 2025

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Please follow the link above to read and download the Officers' Reports and minutes of the AGM for 2024 to be voted on at the AGM on 12th April 2025

NEW PROJECT GRANTS SCHEME, February 2025

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The Society’s Council has voted to overhaul its Research Grants system, through which we have supported many mollusc-related research projects over the past 25 years. We hope the revised Project Grants scheme will attract a wider variety of initiatives, and encourage more applications from Britain and Ireland.

Indoor Meeting

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Indoor meeting

INDOOR MEETING with exhib

Organiser

Programme Secretary, Matt Law

programme@conchsoc.org

Organisation
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UPDATE Indoor Meeting - Talk cancelled

Type
Indoor meeting

UPDATE - Friday 6th December 2024

Organiser

Programme Secretary, Matt Law

programme@conchsoc.org

Organisation
Conchological Society

DISPOSAL OF UNSOLD BOOKS, November 5 2024

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There are still about 175 books and other publications (out of over 800)  that have not yet found homes;  these are now all available free (apart from postage)!   This is the last time they will be offered – those that remain unrequested at the end of this month will be given to À la Rond

MORE BOOKS FOR SALE

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Please have a look at this collection of

SALE OF UNSOLD BOOKS, October 1 2024: prices slashed once again; many free books: fill your shelves!

  • Read more about SALE OF UNSOLD BOOKS, October 1 2024: prices slashed once again; many free books: fill your shelves!

The purpose of the sale is to try to find good homes for everything, and to raise money for the Society and individual vendors. The sale is open to non-members as well as to members.

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