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Programme of indoor meetings 2005/2006 |
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All held at 7.30pm in Lecture Theatre 3, Ken Edwards Building, on the main University of Leicester campus, except where stated. Details correct as of September 2005. Further details contact: Chairman Mark Evans, tel. 0116 225 4904, e-mail Mark.Evans@Leicester.gov.uk. Wednesday October 5th Dr Liam Herringshaw (University of Birmingham) - 'Weirdoes of the Wenlock Limestone'. Wednesday October 19th Dr David Pyle (University of Cambridge) - 'Volcanism in the Earth System, Past Present and Future'. Wednesday November 2nd Professor Dick Aldridge (University of Leicester) - 'The rise of the chordates: new evidence from exceptionally preserved fossils from China and South Africa'. Wednesday November 16th Dr Conall MacNiocaill (University of Oxford) - 'The Neoproterozoic glacial world: defrosting some of the myths'. Wednesday November 30th Dr Adrian Wood (Coventry University) – ‘A Pliocene world as seen through the eye of an ostracod'. Monday December 5th Parent Body Lecture, to be held at New Walk Museum, Leicester Professor Bill Maguire (University College London) - 'Surviving Armageddon: solutions for a threatened planet'. Wednesday December 14th Christmas meeting, to be held at the New Walk Museum, Leicester Wednesday January 11th Dr John Nudds (University of Manchester) - 'Exceptional fossils from southern Germany'. Wednesday January 25th Professor Jack Meadows (Loughborough University) - 'The Barwell meteorite: 40 years on'. Wednesday February 8th Members evening, to be held at the New Walk Museum, Leicester Wednesday February 22nd Dr Murray Gray (Queen Mary College, University of London) - 'Geodiversity: an important new concept for the earth sciences?'. Wednesday March 8th Dr Jenny Clack (University of Cambridge) - 'Evolution of the four-legged fish - new views of an early tetrapod icon'. |
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Saturday March 11th (whole day) Saturday School, Ken Edwards Building, University of Leicester. 9.30 am - 5.00 pm. Fire, flood, drought and deep-freeze: the turbulent geological evolution of Leicestershire, Rutland and surrounding areas |
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Wednesday March 22nd Annual General Meeting and Chairman's address - Mark Evans (New Walk Museum, Leicester) - 'The Great Sea Dragons - plesiosaurs of the Early Jurassic'.
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