Workshops
Workshops take place once or twice a year, giving members an opportunity to consult an expert on some aspect of mollusc identification, and are usually held at a member's home.
In the past there has been a tendency to concentrate on the so-called "difficult groups", but if you are a beginner do not be put off by that. Beginners are always welcome, especially if they give prior notice so that arrangements may be made for the use of a stereo microscope if they do not have one of their own.
At a recent workshop
We do not necessarily restrict ourselves to subjects requiring the use of a microscope, nor to recent species. We also cover fossils, and large species.
Previous subjects have included micro-fossil shells, slugs, cockles, Vertigos, Pisidia, Lymnaeidae, Planorbidae, small marine bivalves, Succineidae, and Oxychilus. If you would like one of these to be repeated (or some other speciality), please contact Judith Nelson (details below), and we will try to accommodate you.
We hope to introduce "mini workshops" during the morning before some indoor meetings at the Natural History Museum. Look out for announcements in the Programme of Meetings.
WORKSHOP - Saturday 28 November 2009:
The annual workshop held in Woking offers members the opportunity to receive tuition on identifying difficult groups. Bookings to Judith Nelson (01483 761210) (home).
The annual workshop held in Woking offers members the opportunity to receive tuition on identifying difficult groups. Bookings to Judith Nelson (01483 761210) (home).