Dear all,

There are still spaces left on our forthcoming, and exciting GCG seminar in Cardiff, on a theme of ‘Inspiring Volunteers-Promoting Collections’, on 4^th and 5^th December.

Please see the attached 2^nd circular for details, but if you would like to come along, please do register as soon as possible, preferably through our website www.geocurator.org.

We’d love to make this a really great conference, so if you have been a volunteer, or manage volunteers, or would like to find out more about volunteer projects in curatorial settings then please do come along. We can even still accept posters if you’d like to let me know this week! It’s also a great chance to see the galleries and collections in the National Museum of Wales, and to meet up with other like-minded curators, geologists, volunteers, conservators and other wonderful people.

If you’ve already booked then please note that I’m happy to take anyone to see the nearby Upper Triassic dinosaur footprint site on Thursday morning as the tides will be perfect. Let me know if you’d like to come along and we’ll try to coordinate lifts.

Also if you have an interest in minerals, then you might be interested in speaker Roy Starkey’s impressive new book Minerals of the English Midlands. He’s happy to bring copies along to the meeting if you let him know in advance – which will save you the postage (see below)!

Do come along, and please circulate to colleagues, volunteers and other societies.

Cindy

PS - GCG Member and speaker Roy Starkey has offered to bring copies of his new book Minerals of the English Midlands to the meeting for delegates to buy (thus saving £10 on postage). You can find details of the book, together with sample page images on Roy’s website here https://britishmineralogy.com/wordpress/? page_id=878 The book runs to more than 400 pages, weighs over 2 kg and is a major reference work on the subject, likely to be a valuable reference source for anyone caring for a British mineral collection. If you would like Roy to bring a copy for you, please let him know in advance of the meeting (email [log in to unmask] ).

Cindy Howells

GCG membership secretary

Curator and Collections Manager (Palaeontology)

Natural Sciences, National Museum of Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP

Phone: 029 20573 354

Come and see Dracoraptor: the new Welsh Dinosaur on display now!

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Facebook Group: South Wales Fossil Hunters

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Geological Curators’ Group 2018 AGM, Cardiff 4^th Dec www.geocurator.org

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SVPCA/SPPC – Isle of Wight, Sept 2019 www.svpca.org

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South Wales Geologists’ Association www.swga.org.uk

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South East Wales RIGS group https://sewrigs.wordpress.com/

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