(Please contact leader in advance of field meetings, and check the Conch Soc website for updates)
Sat 27 March 2 p.m. in Dorothea Bate Room, Natural History Museum, London
Annual General Meeting
Presidential Address: Sebastian Payne
Australian Shells and the colonisation of Lord Howe Island
Saturday 10 April 10.30 am
Yorkshire Conchological Society
1 km recording in TA15 and TA16
Contact David
Lindley tel 0113 2697047 or
davi...@btinternet.com.
Meet in coastal car park in Fraisthorpe TA169627.
Sunday 9 May
Yorkshire Conch Soc
Topcliffe for A1 corridor
Meet 10.30 in
small car park on west side of the old bridge in Topcliffe, SD 397759
Contact David Lindley (as above)
Saturday-Monday 22-24 May
North Wales Limestone Pavements
Leader:
Adrian Norris 0113 274 5244
Survey of pavements on Great Orme SH7572583950 and on Bryn Pydew SH
8175779817.
Meet on Gt Orme Saturday near SH766842 at 11 am. Pay the toll fee
(£2.50) for Marine Drive and park in informal park up a small
track just past the Rest And Be Thankful café.
Saturday 12 June
Flitwick Moor and FollyWood,
Flitwick, Bedfordshire
Joint meeting
with Flitvale local Wildlife Trust Group
Leader: Peter Topley 0118 935 1413
Meet 10.30 at car park at end of small track at Folly Farm TL046354.
Bring Wellingtons and packed lunch. Details at http://www.wildlifebcnp.org/reserves/reserve1.php?reserveid=19
Saturday 26 June
River Wey, Northern Branch, Froyle, Hampshire
Freshwater Meeting
Leader: June
Chatfield 0142082214
Meet 10.30 at service road by Hen and Chickens Pub on A31, SU756421.
Bring packed lunch. A Southwestern train departs London Waterloo at
8.23, arriving at Alton at 9.38; and bus 65 for the Hen and Chickens
leaves Alton Station at 10.00.
Saturday 3 July
Brockadale, Southwest Yorkshire
Joint meeting with Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union
Leader Joyce
Simmons 01977 620725
Meet in Brockadale YWT nature reserve car park SE513174 at 10.30 The
car park is 400 yds down Leys Lane half a mile NW of Little Smeaton
on the minor road towards Darrington. Limestone crags.
Saturday 4 September
Yorkshire Conch Soc.
Settrington area VC62
Contact: David
Lindley 0113 2697047
Meet 10.30 in village centre SE834703 for 1Km recording.
Wednesday - Saturday 8-11 September
Isles of Scilly Marine Meeting
Joint meeting with Porcupine Marine NH Society
£35 charge
for lab facilities and boat transport. Book accommodation early.
Coordination and contact: Angie Gall, Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust,
01872 240777 ext 243.
Saturday 2 October
Yorkshire Conch Soc
Upper Nidderdale VC64
Contact David
Lindley 0113 2697047
Meet 10.30
car park Pately Bridge, S side of river SE157654
Saturday 2 October 11 a.m. in Dorothea Bate room, Natural History Museum, London.
Members’ exhibits and demonstrations
2 p.m. Lecture
Robert Cameron: Thoughts on an extraordinary snail
Saturday -Sunday 23-24 October
South Devon search for Malacolimax tenellus
Leader Keith Alexander Tel: 01392413092
Saturday 30 October
Wyre Forest Search for Malacolimax tenellus
Leader: Rosemary Winnall Tel 01299266489.
Saturday 6 November
Indoor Regional Meeting in Cambridge
Saturday 27 November
Annual Identification Workshop in Woking
Bookings to Judith Nelson 01483 761210
Saturday 11 December 2 p.m. in the Dorothea Bate room, Natural History Museum, London
Guest lecture to be announced
Indrella amputta. © The Natural History Museum, London.
Mariaella dussumieri. © The Natural History Museum, London.
Beddomea trifasciatus (lowland form). © The Natural History Museum, London.