Past Events, meetings & field trip programs


Monthly meeting program 2020 

Date           Presenter Presenter Topic Theme Shell Topic
25 Jan Any and all Mini Talks - by as many members as possible Ugliest shell you just cant part with
22 Feb NA National Shell Show 2021 Planning meeting. Finalise competition categories Cowrie - Single species big and small pair
28 Mar   Cancelled  
18 Apr Zoom Mini shell show in a single category: Volutes that can be found in NSW. Plus how to judge workshop, using the competition exhibits as examples. A skinny (spindle like) volute WW
9 May Zoom Cones, plus mini-talks, several on C. ammiralis Black shell (Paint or mud stains not allowed).
23 May Zoom Strombs Sinistral Shells = spiral anticlockwise
6 June Zoom Murex Shells that are not Molluscs, but still produced by living creatures
20 June Zoom Olives Xenophoridae
4 July Zoom
Angus Hawke
Australian shells through the Ages, fossils to current. Shell species that naturally look dirty even once cleaned. Excluding fossils.
18 July NA BBQ at Ashley's House. BYO everything. Starts at Midday. Also our AGM NA
22 Aug TBA  Bayview Hall Favourite Shell
26 Sep TBA  Bayview Hall Shell that is large for the species
24 Oct NA 40th Annual Shell Show Bayview NA
28 Nov TBA Bayview Hall Favourite Tiger cowrie
TBA Dec    Xmas lunch at Ryde Eastwood Club  

 

Monthly meeting program 2021

Date           Location Presenter Presenter Topic Theme Shell Topic
23 Jan Ashley's Museum   Visit to Ashleys shell museum and BBQ. BYO everything. 10.30am onwards. 1.30pm Meeting NA
20 Feb Ashley's Museum Phil Colman Early history of the Royal Zoological Society, our shell club as a branch, then when we created the MSA and set ourselves up as a branch of it instead. BYO everything. 11.30am onwards. 1.30pm Meeting Shells made into something else
27 Mar Bayview Scout Hall Ian Mattiske and Ashley Miskelly Show and Tell Shell Show
Presentation: Turning shell shows upside down.
Arrive from 12.30 for 2pm start
A shell that helped inspire you to start your collection
24 Apr Bayview Scout Hall Ron Moylan Zoila rosselli variations.

(Bring your rosselli to be identified)

Arrive from 12.30 for 1.30pm start
(Note - Anzac long weekend is 24-26 Apr)

Favourite Cone
22 May Bayview Scout Hall Phil Colman Early history of Australian quarantine as it relates to shells. . Arrive from 12.30 for 1.30pm start Shell purchase accidents and disasters
26 June Bayview Scout Hall NA Display of Historical Scuba equipment. Shell displays. Special shell birthday cakes NA
24 July Via Zoom NA Flexible Categories Shell Show
Presentation: AGM and Mini-Talks
2pm start.
Continuation of - something else we also collect (IE other than shells)
28 Aug Via Zoom NA Flexible Categories Shell Show
2pm start.
NA
25 Sep Via Zoom NA Flexible Categories Shell Show
2pm start.
Star shaped shell, or pattern
23 Oct Bayview Scout Hall and Zoom for the unvaccinated ? 2pm start 3 favourite bivalves (Not spondylus or pectens)
27 Nov Bayview Scout Hall or Ryde Eastwood 20 Nov NA 41st Annual Shell Show
And COA
10.30am-3.30pm.

Public viewing 12.30pm to 2.30pm

NA
18 Dec Ryde Eastwood Leagues NA Shell club xmas lunch
Arrive 11-11.30am continue through afternoon
NA

Monthly meeting Presentation Program 2022
(Subject to change or shuffling to suit presenters)

 

Date           Location Presenter Presenter Topic Theme Shell Topic
22 Jan Ashley's House NA Summer Picnic BBQ at Ashley's. 12.30pm Strange marine thing that looks like a shell but isn't
26 Feb Ryde Eastwood Leagues Ian Mattiske Shells from Balut Island, Philippines Favourite shell from anywhere in the Philippines
26 Mar Ryde Eastwood Leagues Ashely Miskelly Shells from North Bruny Island, Tasmania

MIni talk - recent trip to Philippines,

A shell from your collection that has significance and a story behind it

or

Something other than shells that you have found on the beach while looking for shells

23 Apr Ryde Eastwood Leagues Joe Schiavello Presentation: Jet Propulsion

Plus optional mini talks
1pm start

Favourite indo-pacific cones
28 May Ryde Eastwood Leagues All Discussion - The changing world of shell Collecting Unusual bivalve, excluding spondylus and pecten
25 June Ryde Eastwood Leagues All Discussion Continued - The changing world of shell Collecting Knobbed Shell
23 July Ryde Eastwood Leagues All Final Preparations for the National Shell Show. Possible working bee NA
19-21 Aug Balgowlah RSL NA Australian International Shell Show - 2022 NA
24 Oct Ryde Eastwood Leagues Steve Dean Talk about shell dealers in Philippines and about carved shells from Bali Flat shell
22 Nov Ryde Eastwood Leagues NA 42nd Annual Shell Show
12.30-4pm
Guest speaker - collecting around Sydney area. Jack Hannan
NA
10 Dec Ryde Eastwood Leagues NA Shell club Xmas lunch
Arrive 11-11.30am continue through afternoon, and possibly evening
NA

Monthly meeting Presentation Program 2023
 

Date           Location Presenter Presenter Topic Shell of the meeting topic
28 Jan Ashley's House NA Summer Picnic BBQ at Ashley's. 12.30pm  
25 Feb Ryde Eastwood Leagues Ron Moylan Amoria hunteri, variations and range Shell where the aperture is excessively closed in
25 Mar Ryde Eastwood Leagues Ian Mattiske

Some interesting shells and some interesting topics we have not discussed a lot, including albanistic and end of geographic range.

Interesting shell from the end of its geographic range
22 Apr Ryde Eastwood Leagues Several Report on the National Shell Show in Brisbane Fake or doctored shell
27 May Ryde Eastwood Leagues Mini Talks Short talks by multiple members:

Jack Hannon - Port Stephens trip – showing underwater photos of live ‘allied cowries’ and their host corals

Alan Austin - My shell collecting journey, how it commenced and where I'm up to now

Other members mini talks

The actual specimen that was photographed for a shell publication
24 June Ryde Eastwood Leagues All experienced  collectors Discussion on collecting shells to aid our newer members. 

Including some of the following: Where to collect. What equipment to take. How to clean the animal out. How to clean periostracum and worm tubes barnacles and coral off shells. How to clean stains. How to ID each species. How to store shells. How to display shells. Ongoing maintenance of collection.

A pair of shells of one species that were equally in a bad way when collected. Both with animal removed, but one with the outside cleaned for display and the other left as found.
22 July Ryde Eastwood Leagues Ian, Ian, Steve, Jack AGM, and annual memberships due $60.

Four talks on shells from overseas

Best FAT shell. Can be big or small species.
26 Aug Ryde Eastwood Leagues Ashley Holopmeustes - Endemic Australian Sea Urchins.

Sample Iris's NSW volute soups. Cymbiloa magnifica, and Ericusa sowerbyi

Discuss annual show categories.

Shell, at least in part, the colour yellow
23 Sep Ryde Eastwood Leagues Jack, Ian L, Iris Talk - September collecting in Northern WA. WA shell
28 Oct Ryde Eastwood Leagues   43rd Annual Shell Show
12.30-4pm
NA
25 Nov Ryde Eastwood Leagues Ron Moylan.


Anders Hallan

Melanistic and Rostrated Cowries

New DNA techniques and work underway re fossil evolution in volutes, hence updated genus ID for extant volutidate

NSW found shell
16 Dec Ryde Eastwood Leagues NA Shell club Xmas lunch
Arrive 11-11.30am continue through afternoon, and possibly evening
NA

 

 

 

 


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