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Taking stock

As our Treasurer notes in introducing the financial statement, it has been an interesting year. With the help of Mark Davies, acting Membership Secretary, The Society has recovered a large sum in arrears. With an up-to-date membership list we will also avoid losses in future years produced by sending the Journal non-subscribers. The EGM at the Cambridge meeting will seek to change the Rules to ensure that current membership is known before publications are sent, and to add the membership secretary to the list of officers. The financial statements this time, and in future, appear in the Spring Bulletin, to give you longer to consider them before the AGM.

The Molluscan Forum, in a new format, was a success this year, and we hope it will become a useful annual meeting point for new malacologists. The quality of the presentations made the Forum a success on the day, but a lot also depended on the hard work put in beforehand, particularly by Robert Cameron and Alex Ball.

As well as controlling The Society's finances, organising meetings, and producing publications, the Council has dealt with other issues. Various members are currently discussing ways to make our Awards more effective, meeting with other taxon-based Societies to discuss our future role, or investigating the background to an out-of-the-blue message from the librarian at University College, London, about members' use of the College Library.

I thank everyone who has contributed articles, information and illustrations. Please send items for the next Bulletin (Number 37, August 2001) to reach me by mid-July. Please keep articles simple and succinct, avoiding or explaining specialist terms. Where appropriate, include a reference to a more detailed account, and an illustration. Remember that the Web version uses colour illustrations. As well as article, I rely on you for information on meetings, 'snippets' of news etc.

Dr S E R Bailey
School of Biological Sciences,
3.614 Stopford Building,
The University of Manchester,
Oxford Road,
Manchester M13 9PT, UK.

Tel: 0161 275 3861
Fax: 0161 275 3938
Email: BBAI...@FS1.SCG.MAN.AC.UK

Bill Bailey


 

 

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