Northern Coleopterists Meet - Manchester Museum - 27/09/2008

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Northern Coleopterists Meet - Manchester Museum - 27/09/2008

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Northern Coleopterists' Meeting - Manchester Museum - 27/09/2008:

Hi,

Here is the agenda for the Northern Coleopterists Meeting 08 which will take place on Saturday, 27th September 2008 from 10:00am to 16.30pm at Manchester Museum, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL.

Agenda

TEA/COFFEE - 10:00am
Introduction - Tom Hubball - 10:25am
Manchester Museum: Collections and Records – Dmitri Logunov - 10:30am
Beetles Associated with Lundy Cabbage – Stephen Compton - 11:00am
Why We Need More Work in the Lake District: The Last Stronghold of Hydroporus rufifrons – Garth Foster
- 11:45am
LUNCH (Please note that lunch is not provided) - 12:30pm
Buglife and Beetle Conservation - Matt Shardlow or Jamie Roberts - 13:30pm
Water Beetle Recording and Conservation in Yorkshire - Martin Hammond
- 14:15pm
Demonstration of Preparing, Setting and Mounting Specimens - Don Stenhouse - 14:30pm
Informal discussions, viewing exhibits and identification of specimens. - 15:15pm
END - 16:30pm


Please bring along any exhibits for discussion or set specimens for identification (unfortunately due to time constraints we will be unable to try to identify any un-set specimens).
The Entomology Departments library and collections will be available to view and some microscopes will also be available, but please do feel free to bring your own.
Please note that lunch is not provided. However the museum has it's own cafe and there are a variety of fast food restaurants in the vicinity. As food and drink may not be consumed in the Entomology Dept., a room is provided for anyone bringing a packed lunch.

The nearest car park to the museum is Booth Street West. This is open from 6am-midnight.
For directions, see http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/yourvisit/travel.

If you have any further questions please feel free to contact myself or Dmitri on the phone numbers/email addresses below.

Hope to see you there !

Tom Hubball
01535 678334 (after 6pm) - email: vc63dragonfly@blueyonder.co.uk
or
Dmitri Logunov, Curator of Arthropods, Manchester Museum 0161 275 2666 - email: dmitri.v.logunov@manchester.ac.uk
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