AMERICAN MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY
                  4-9 July 1999: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
                         1999 MEETING PROGRAM

  The program (without abstracts) for the 1999  meeting of the
American Malacological Society is posted on  the AMS website at:

      http://erato.acnatsci.org/ams/

Final programs will be available at the meeting.  The primary
symposium,  New Looks at Old Mollusks, will kick-off the meeting
at 8:30am on  4 July at the Sheraton Station Square.  Fireworks
over Three Rivers Stadium that night at the Presidential and
Symposium Reception.  A dinner cruise on the "three rivers" will
round out the meeting on 8 July.  Fossil and freshwater field trips to
some very exciting spots in western Pennsylvania will occur on 9
July.
  Other sessions include:
        Biomineralization (organized by Joe Carter)
        Genetics  (organized by Laura Adamkewicz)
        Curation for "Amateurs" (organized by Charlie Sturm)
        Women in Malacology  (organized by Louise Kraemer)
        The "Clench Tapes" and History of AMS  (Harold Murray)
        Education and Malacology  (organized by Trish Morse)
        Various contributed and poster sessions
        Keynote on New Discoveries at the Hydrothermal Vents by
                Rich Lutz

For those of you still wishing to attend, registration material can
also still be found at the AMS web site noted above.

See you at the Sheraton Station Square in beautiful Pittsburgh,
PA, USA
4-9 July 1999.

Bob Prezant, President
American Malacological Society
Queens College, CUNY
Flushing, NY  11367  U.S.A.
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