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WORLD CONGRESS 2004
The World
Congress of Malacology 2004 will be held in Perth, Western Australia
in July 2004.
At the recent World Congress of Malacology in Vienna (August 2001), Dr
Fred Wells of the Western Australian Museum was elected President of Unitas
Malacologia. The prime role of the president is to serve as chief organiser
of the next Unitas conference. Accordingly, the World Congress of Malacology
2004 will be held in Perth in July 2004. The Malacological Society of
Australasia and the Tropical Marine Mollusc Programme have already agreed
to participate, ensuring that the World Congress of Malacology will be
a truly international conference. The American Malacological Society has
been invited to be a co-sponsoring society, but has not yet reached a
decision on this.
The recent Vienna congress was jointly organised by Unitas Malacologia
(The International Society of Malacology) and by the American Malacological
Society. The conference was the second world congress to be organised
by the two societies. It attracted 400 scientists working on molluscs
from over 60 countries, including 6 participants from Australia. Topics
discussed included all aspects of molluscs, including marine, freshwater,
terrestrial, and fossil species. The five days of paper sessions covered
subjects as diverse as the phylogeny of the Mollusca, functional morphology,
ecology, behaviour, fossil record, biodiversity, and conservation.
This is a preliminary announcement. Further information on will be posted
on the MSA website as it becomes available. Otherwise you can obtain information
directly from the conference organiser.
CONFERENCE ORGANISER
Dr Fred Wells
wellsf@museum.wa.gov.au.
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