Malacological Society of London

[2] On 15 September 1901 the society lost its secretary, Martin Fountain Woodward, who was drowned when a boat he was travelling in capsized off the coast of County Galway while he was in temporary charge of the marine biological laboratory of the Fisheries Board for Ireland at Innisbofin.

[3] Founding members included the zoologist and malacologist E. A. Smith, president of the society from 1901 to 1903,[4] and J. R. le B. Tomlin, who named more than a hundred taxa of gastropod molluscs[5] and architect Henry William Burrows.

[1] An annual Malacological Society "Molluscan Forum" takes place at the Natural History Museum, London, with the 14th held in November 2011.

An informal event, this is intended to bring together people beginning mollusc research, whether palaeontological, physiological, ecological, morphological, systematic, or molecular, with time for presentations and discussions.

Attendance is open to all, at no charge, but those wishing to give presentations should be students engaged on molluscan projects or amateurs with substantial unpublished work.