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About the Society
- Contacts and messages
- Message from the President (January 2010)
- Message from the Treasurer (July 2009)
- Message from the Editor of Mollusc World (March 2010)
- How to join
- Rules of the Society
Affiliations
Aids to identification of molluscs
- British & Irish freshwater and brackish-water gastropods
- British & Irish Vertigo species
- Common British & Irish garden molluscs
- Encyclopedia of British Molluscs
- Key to larger marine snails living on rocky shores around the British Isles
Books. See below for discounted books.
- An annotated list of the non-marine Mollusca of Britain and Ireland
- General book list
- Marine book list
- Non-marine book list
Checklists
- An annotated list of the non-marine Mollusca of Britain and Ireland
- British Checklist of Non-marine Mollusca, 2005
Discounted books. The Society is sometimes able to negotiate special prices or reduced rates on books, etc.
Donations
- To make a donation towards the Society's work promoting the study of molluscs and their conservation.
E-mail group
Eminent conchologists
Field meetings – reports, photos and species lists (Access to reports is from the left-hand menu)
Fun pages about molluscs
Glossaries of molluscan terms
Habitat lists of British & Irish molluscs
- Freshwater habitats
- Land habitats
- Broadleaved woodlands
- Calcareous grasslands
- Gardens
- Old builders rubble
- Old stabilised sand dunes
- Rocks, cliffs, and dry-stone walls
- Wetlands (fens and marshes)
- Marine and brackish-water habitats
Health and safety policy
Links to useful websites
Materials and equipment
Meetings
- Conferences, seminars, symposia, etc., on molluscan subects by other organizations, in U.K. and Europe.
- Proposed shellsand workshop.
- Malacological Society of London meeting. To be held at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge on Wednesday 14 April 2010 with the theme: Molluscs as environmental indicators.
More details and programme »
Abstracts of presentations » - Field meetings
- Indoor meetings
- Programme of Society meetings
- Workshops
Members' interests
- British land and freshwater molluscs
- British marine molluscs
- Captive breeding of molluscs
- Conchological books
- Conservation of molluscs
- Cooking with molluscs
- Foreign marine molluscs
- Fossil molluscs
- Nursery rhymes – The snail in old nursery rhymes
- Pets – giant african land snails
- Photographing molluscs
- Poetry
- Prose
- Shell artefacts
- Shellcraft
- Shell decorations
- Shell money
- Shells on stamps
News items and press releases
Photographs from some field meetings
Policies and protocols
- Code of conduct for field work
- Data release policy
- Health and safety policy
- Privacy policy
- Protocol for the publication of distibutional records of endangered species
Publications
- Purchase back numbers of publications
- Journal of Conchology
- Instructions for potential authors
- Protocol for the publication of distibutional records of endangered species
- Abstracts of papers in Volume 37
- Abstracts of papers in Volume 38
- Abstracts of papers in Volume 39
- Abstracts of papers in Volume 40, part 1.
- Members' Guide
- Mollusc World, the Society magazine
- Special Publications in the format of the Journal of Conchology
- Subscribing to publications
Random photographs from some field meetings
Recording
- Non-marine recording
- Checklist
- Recording forms
- Regional recorders
- Vice-county data sets.
All the datasets below are in pdf format. See 'Reports of field meetings' below for details.
Reports of field meetings
Most of the files in the Reports and Species Lists sections are in pdf (Portable Document Format) for which you will require Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to read them. Most modern operating systems come with it included, but if yours does not, it is available as a free download by clicking on this logo.
Non-marine meetings
- Angling Spring Wood and Ashridge Estate, 22nd.– 23rd. October 2005
- Archenhills and Mill Coppice,Suckley, Worcestershire,
13th. October 2007 - Bavelaw Marsh, Midlothian, 25th. September 2005
- Beckingham, Nottinghamshire,15th. September 2007
- Branscombe, Devon, 22nd. May 2004 – Meeting for Truncatellina callicratis
- Broadway Hill, Worcestershire, 5th. April and 14th. June 2008
- Fermanagh, 16th and 17th August 2008
- Forest of Dean, 11th.–12th. October 2008
- Lower Windrush Valley, 17th. July 2004
- North Nottinghamshire, 2005
- Pease Dean, Berwickshire, 9th. September 2007
- Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, 3rd.– 4th. June 2006
- Sandwich Bay, 5th.–6th. June 2004
- Stoke Wood, Northamptonshire, 28th. April 2007
- West Worcestershire Hills, 20th. May 2006
- Wyre Forest outliers, 2nd. April 2005
Marine meetings
- Anglesey and Lleyn Peninsula, 26–29th. April 2006
- Conchological Society & Porcupine joint meeting, 5th. May 2004
- Exmouth, Devon, 27–28th. September 2003
- Hunstanton, July 2008
- North Wales, September 2008
- Rhossili,15–17th. June 2007
- Sandwich Bay, 5th.–6th. June 2004
Fossil collecting and geological meetings
Research grants
Sales of publications back numbers and other Society merchandise
Slug control
- There is more to slug control than a packet of pellets. There are options here for all situations. Dr Bill Symondson's article covers the identification of slug pest species, chemical and non-chemical methods of controlling slug pests, resistant plant varieties, and how to encourage natural predators.
- A recent development has been the use of Ferric Phosphate pellets.
- Ferric Phosphate Fact Sheet
- Ferric Phosphate based pellets – Approved for organic farming under EEC Directive 2092/91.
- Slug resistant garden plants (or nearly so!)
Shakespeare and Sea Shells
Special offers. The Society is sometimes able to negotiate special prices or reduced rates on books, etc.
Species reports from field meetings (Some species reports are contained within the Field Meeting Report )
Non-marine meetings
- Beckingham, 15th. September 2007
- Pease Dean, Berwickshire, 9th. September 2007
- Roxburghshire, 3rd.– 4th. June 2006
Marine meetings
- Rhossili,15–17th. June 2007
- Sandwich Bay, 5th.–6th. June 2004 (marine and non-marine)
- Thanet, Kent, 25–26th. June, 2005