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      • Current part: 45 (3), 2025
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      • Issue 1
        • Collecting East African marine snails
        • Field meeting to Box Hill
        • Introduction
        • Oyster Catchers feeding on Patella vulgata
      • Issue 2
        • Collecting localities in the Cape Province
        • Field meeting Walton-on-Naze
        • Herons, Moorhens and Rats feeding on Anodonta anatina
        • Introduction to molluscan taxonomy 1) Species and subspecies
        • 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
        • David Landsborough
        • Field meeting at Albury
        • Field meeting at Leith Hill
        • Posting living mollusca
        • Snails extinct in England but living abroad
        • Still more autobiography
        • The Viviparidae
    • Papers for students
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Saturday 13th June 2020: FIELD MEETING (non-marine): Carmel National Nature Reserve, Carmarthenshire. CANCELLATION CONFIRMED

Type
Field meeting

Reserve in karst limestone area with dramatic disused quarries, ancient woodland and the only turlough ("disappearing lake”) in Britain.

Organiser

Ben Rowson (Ben.Rowson@museumwales.ac.uk, 07853 849114) and Dai Herbert (phasianella@gmail.com, 07470393642)

Organisation
Conchological Society

Saturday 20th June 2020: FIELD MEETING (non-marine): Mendip area, Somerset. CANCELLATION CONFIRMED

Type
Field meeting

Focus on Ena montana in ancient woodlands on limestone.  

Organiser

Keith Alexander (07394 251990, keith.alexander@waitrose.com)

Organisation
Conchological Society

Saturday 4th July 2020: YCS and YNU FIELD MEETING (non-marine): Central Dearne Valley, SW Yorkshire (VC 63). CANCELLATION CONFIRMED.

Type
Field meeting

Meet at 10:30 at NGR SE 372 064; please contact leader to confirm.

 

Organiser

Joyce Simmons (01977 620725, joyce@gentian.plus.com )

Organisation
Yorkshire Naturalists' Union

Sunday 5th July 2020: FIELD MEETING (non-marine): Wenlock Edge, Shropshire. CANCELLATION CONFIRMED

Type
Field meeting

Continuing the exploration of National Trust Silurian limestone grassland and disused quarries. 

Meet at 10.30 at Much Wenlock car park, SO 61287 99644. 

Organiser

Mags Cousins (07791 505641, mags.cousins@naturalengland.org.uk).

Organisation
Conchological Society

Saturday 12th September 2020: FIELD MEETING (non-marine): Devil's Punch Bowl, Hindhead, Surrey. MEETING CONFIRMED CANCLLED

Type
Field meeting

Classic Surrey heath  habitats.

Meet at 11:00 at National Trust car park/visitor centre, NGR SU 891357.

 

Organiser

June Chatfield (01420 82214, collections@haslemeremuseum.co.uk)

Organisation
Conchological Society

Saturday 19th September 2020: FIELD MEETING (marine): Bembridge Ledges, Isle of Wight. Still going ahead.

Type
Field meeting

***** Update: This meeting is still going ahead;  but in view of current regulations, there cannot be more then 6 participants, so anyone who has not previously contacted Bas may h

Organiser

Bas Payne (01647 24515; bas.payne@gmail.com)

Organisation
Conchological Society

Saturday 3rd October 2020 : FIELD MEETING (non-marine): RHS Gardens, Wisley, Surrey.MEETING CONFIRMED CANCELLED.

Type
Field meeting

Native and introduced species in the gardens, glasshouses and woodland;  help create a reference collection for the site.

Organiser

Imogen Cavadino and Hayley Jones (imogencavadino@rhs.org.uk, 01483 226568).

Organisation
Conchological Society

Wednesday 7th October 2020: FIELD MEETING (non-marine): Wyre Forest, Worcs. MEETING CONFIRMED CANCELLED.

Type
Field meeting

Joint meeting with Wyre Forest Study Group.

Organiser

Rosemary Winnall and Rosemary Hill (secretary@conchsoc.org).

Organisation
Conchological Society

Wednesday 14th October – Wednesday 21st October 2020: FIELD MEETING (marine and non-marine): N. Pembrokeshire Coast. UNFORTUNATELY THIS MEETING IS NOW CONFIRMED AS CANCELLED

Type
Field meeting

Area with a good variety of rocky and sandy shores, relatively under-recorded.  Based at Dale Fort Field Study Centre, where laboratory facilities are available

Organiser

Simon Taylor ( marine@conchsoc.org, 01621 810141)

Organisation
Conchological Society

*** Book auction ends: deadline for bids on Sunday ***

Type
Workshop

Just a reminder that the deadline for bids is midnight on Sunday (15 March).

The catalogue, rules and a bid form are all available to download below.

Organiser

Bas Payne (01647 24515; bas.payne@gmail.com)

Organisation
Conchological Society

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