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About the Society

• Contacts
• How to join
• Rules of the Society

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

• 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

Donations

• To make a donation towards the Society's work promoting the study of molluscs and their conservation.

E-mail group

Field meetings – reports, photos and species lists

• Non-marine
• Marine

Fun pages about molluscs

• Cartoons
• Rhymes and poems
• Stories and anecdotes
• Quotations

Glossaries of molluscan terms

• Glossary of bivalve terms with some diagrams
• Glossary of gastropod terms with some diagrams

Habitat lists of British & Irish molluscs

• Freshwater habitats
• Land habitats
• Marine and brackish-water habitats

Health and safety policy

• Health and safety form
• Information for leaders
• Risk assessment toolkit

Links to useful websites

Materials and equipment

Meetings

• Conferences, seminars, symposia, etc., on molluscan subects by other organizations, in U.K. and Europe.
• Field meetings
• Indoor meetings
• Programme of Society meetings
• Workshops

Members' interests

• British land and freshwater molluscs
• British marine molluscs
• Captive breeding
• Conchological books
• Conservation
• Cooking
• Seafood paella recipe
• Foreign marine molluscs
• Fossil molluscs
• Pets – giant african land snails
• Photographing molluscs
• Poetry
• Prose
• Shell artefacts
• Shellcraft
• Shell decorations
• Shell money
• Shells on stamps

News items and press releases

• Archived news items and press releases

Policies and protocols

• Code of conduct for field work
• Data release policy
• Health and safety policy
• Health and safety form
• Information for leaders
• Risk assessment toolkit
• 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
• Special Publications in the format of the Journal of Conchology
• Mollusc World, the Society magazine
• Instructions for potential authors
• Members' Guide

Recording

• Non-marine recording
• Checklist
• Recording forms
• Regional recorders
• Vice-county data sets
• Marine recording
• Recording projects
• The status of Phenacolimax major in the U.K.
• Survey of Malacolimax tenellus in the U.K.
• Monitoring the spread of the alien snail Hygromia cinctella in gardens
• The current distribution of the American Slipper Limpet Crepidula fornicata

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
• 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 (marine and non-marine)
• 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
• Rhossili,15–17th. June 2007
• Sandwich Bay, 5th.–6th. June 2004 (marine and non-marine)
• Thanet, Kent, 25–26th. June, 2005

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!)

Species reports from field meetings (Some species reports are contained within the Field Meeting Report )

Non-marine meetings

• Beckingham, 15th. September 2007
• Roxburghshire, 3rd.– 4th. June 2006

Marine meetings

• Sandwich Bay, 5th.–6th. June 2004 (marine and non-marine)
• Thanet, Kent, 25–26th. June, 2005

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Techniques

• Counting whorls
• Measuring shells