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      • Issue 1
        • Collecting East African marine snails
        • Field meeting to Box Hill
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        • 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
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        • 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
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        • 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
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        • Field meeting at Norwich
        • Geology for conchologists - Introduction
        • Geology for conchologists - The last 15,000 years
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        • Field meeting at Norbury Park
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        • David Landsborough
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Sunday 8th May 2016: SNAIL IDENTIFICATION WORKSHOP: Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley South Yorkshire.

Type
Workshop

*** ADDED INFORMATION ***

11.00 AM to 4.00 PM.

Tutor: Robert Cameron.

Organiser

Derek Whiteley (invertebrates@sorby.org.uk).

Friday 29 April – Sunday 1 May 2016: LAND SNAIL IDENTIFICATION COURSE: Juniper Hall, Surrey, RH5 6DA.

Type
Workshop

Tutor: June Chatfield.   

Organiser

FSC: bookings (essential): 01306 734500 or www.field-studies-council.org/londonregion/juniperhall.

Saturday 23rd April 2016: FIELD MEETING (non-marine): Brookwood Cemetery & Basingstoke Canal, Woking, Surrey.

Type
Field meeting

(May be joint meeting with local societies.)

Extensive Victorian cemetery grounds, with canal nearby.

Organiser

June Chatfield (01420 82214, collections@haslemeremuseum,co.uk) and Isobel Girvan (07811 440892).

Organisation
Conchological Society

Sunday 10th April 2016: YNU FIELD MEETING (marine): “Capturing our Coast” Bioblitz, Selwicks Bay, Yorks

Type
Field meeting

Meet at 11.45 at car park at TA 253/706.  Further information from Paula Lightfoot.

Organiser

Paula Lightfoot (p.lightfoot@btinternet.com).

Organisation
Yorkshire Naturalists' Union

Monday 11th April 2016: FIELD MEETING (non-marine): Little Malvern area, Worcestershire / Herefordshire border.

Type
Field meeting

Looking at areas in the Malvern Hills with high numbers of glow worm records, followed by visit to  Hygromia limbata sites.

Organiser

Rosemary Hill (0118 966 5160; rosemaryhi@lineone.net)

Organisation
Conchological Society

Spawn mass out of water. Brittany, France. Leg. H. Buttivant.

Submitted by Ian Smith on Sat, 20/02/2016 15:17
Species
Aplysia punctata
Photographer / copyright holder
H.Buttivant

Orkney, Scotland. May 2014. Leg. P.Martin.

Submitted by Ian Smith on Sat, 20/02/2016 15:15
Species
Aplysia punctata
Photographer / copyright holder
P.Martin https://www.facebook.com/groups/371185452913250/

Two mating. Lengths 80mm & 100mm. Sublittoral 16m, water temperature 13°C. Firth of Lorne, West Scotland. August, 2007. Leg. J.Anderson.

Submitted by Ian Smith on Sat, 20/02/2016 15:02
Species
Aplysia punctata
Photographer / copyright holder
J.Anderson http://www.nudibranch.org/Scottish%20Nudibranchs/

Emitting defensive purple dye. Cornwall, England. Leg. D. Fenwick.

Submitted by Ian Smith on Sat, 20/02/2016 14:47
Species
Aplysia punctata
Photographer / copyright holder
D.Fenwick http://www.aphotomarine.com/

Length 25mm. Flamborough, England. September 2014. Leg. S.Taylor.

Submitted by Ian Smith on Sat, 20/02/2016 14:17
Species
Aplysia punctata
Photographer / copyright holder
I.F.Smith https://flic.kr/s/aHskuaWLEz

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