A joint meeting with the Wyre Forest Study Group to look for Malacolimax tenellus in Hunthouse Wood, a WT reserve, Worcestershire.
Rosemary Winnall and Rosemary Hill
Would you like some training on terrestrial and freshwater molluscs of meadows and lakes? Then why not join this joint meeting with the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust at Lower Moor farm on Wednesday September 7th?
ConchSoc and the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
A day out surveying molluscs on an Oxfordshire chalk hillside overlooking the River Thames and chance to exchange notes with folk from the Reading and District Natural History Society. Click here for more details!
Join us on Saturday 23 July 2022 from 2pm to 4pm for an online ConchSoc meeting where you can hear the Director of the Freshwater Habitats Trust, Dr Jeremy Biggs talk about, 'Understanding and protecting freshwater Mollusca: the work of the Freshwater Habitats Trust.'
We're organising not one, but two fabulous field meetings this Saturday 28th May; one in Wiltshire led by Mags Cousins with WiltsWildlife, and another in Surrey led by June Chatfield.
Peter Barfield
This is an image of the first specimen of the poorly-ribbed cockle, Acanthocardia paucicostata recorded from UK coastal waters. The specimen was found in the west Solent area in 2016 (Barfield, 2017). The shell was given to the National Museum Wales for curation.
Please follow the link above to read and download the Conchological Society Officers Reports to the AGM which took place on Saturday 9th April 2022.
Check out the list of field meetings planned for 2023, there's something for everyone, so get your diaries out and prioritise some mollusc-time today!
The Annual General Meeting of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland is happening on Saturday 9th April! Why not join us on the day either via Zoom or in person at the Angela Marmont Centre, NHM? John Whicher is our guest speaker who will be giving a talk on, 'Sowerby's Mineral Conchology. Tales of the unexpected'.
