This year, a significant threshold has been reached with the non-marine database.

We were on a joint meeting on the Isles of Scilly with the Porcupine Marine Natural History Society, about 40 of us altogether (see back cover), enough to fill a chartered boat each day so that we

What do you do for a living? Retired but was Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Sheffield University.

It is a remarkable fact that our understanding of the habitats of terrestrial molluscs has advanced little since Boycott’s (1934) exemplary account.

17th September 2011: Derbyshire Shell Show, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
 
29th October 2011, 9am to 5pm:
 Shell Show

I thank everyone who has submitted records during 2010. Some 138,400 records from Britain and Ireland have now been digitised.