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BMS Meeting London



BRITISH MICROPALAEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY
SILVER JUBILEE MEETING
SATURDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 1995
10.00 -  20.00 HOURS

DARWIN LECTURE THEATRE, DARWIN BUILDING,
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
(Entrance in Gower Street)

PROGRAMME

10.00-10.30     Annual General Meeting

Guest Lectures
10.30-11.20     Professor Alexander Altenbach (Munich) -   "Investigations
on the Ecology of Deep-Sea Foraminifera: how to keep in budget"

11.20-12.10     Drs Paul R. Bown (UCL) and Jeremy R. Young (The Natural
History Museum, London) -  "From Crystalldrusen to Coccolithophores: the
slow progress of nannofossil palaeobiology"

12.10-13.00     Dr Thomas M. Cronin (U.S. Geological Survey, Reston) - 
"Ostracods: modern bioindicators of Environmental Change"

13.00-13.45     Buffet Lunch (see below)

14.00-14.50     Dr Anita G. Harris (U.S. Geological Survey, Reston) - 
"Conodonts can: prologue and epilogue"

14.50-15.15     Dr James B. Riding (British Geological Survey) -
"Dinoflagellate Cysts, Acritarchs and Prasinophytes: a review of their
evolution, affinities and economic utility"

15.15-15.40     Dr John B. Richardson (The Natural History Museum, London)
- "A Palynological perspective on early Land Plant Evolution"

15.40-16.30     Dr William R. Riedel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
La Jolla) - "Computer-based aids to Micropalaeontology and Stratigraphy,
with  examples using Cenozoic Radiolaria"

16.45-17.30     Reception - South Cloister

17.30-20.00     Silver Jubilee Dinner - Speaker: Dr Bernard Owens (British
Geological Survey)

Meeting Fee (not including dinner): BMS members £5, Non-members £10, 
Students free (NB: students also need a ticket although there is no charge)
Meals: Buffet Lunch (including soft drinks) £5.00
Dinner (including wine and soft drinks) £22.50
Vegetarians: please advise if vegetarian dinner menu required; lunch
includes vegetarian items

For details and tickets, contact:  Local Secretary, Dr Elspeth Urquhart,


Elspeth Urquhart
Postgraduate Unit of Micropalaeontology
Department of Geological Sciences
University College London
Gower Street
LONDON WC1E 6BT
U.K.

Tel: (0044) 171-380-7929
Fax: (0044) 171-388-7614
e-mail e.urquhart@ucl.ac.uk