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                                 FIRST CALL!

                             SCUM ONE!  SCUM ALL!

             FIFTH ANNUAL GATHERING OF SCUM OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
                   (SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNIFIED MALACOLOGISTS)

                            Saturday January 20
                         Times Mirror Room - 10 AM
                Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
                900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA  90007

                  Hosts:  George Davis and Lindsey Groves

SCUM is an informal association of Southern California professional,
amateur, and student malacologists & paleontologists, who are active or
interested in research on mollusks. The purpose of the annual gathering is to
facilitate contact and keep one another informed of research activities
and opportunities. There are no dues, no officers, and no publications.
SCUM is patterned after the Bay Area Malacologists (BAM), which is
hosted by malacologists at different institutions each year.

This year's meeting will be hosted at the Natural History Museum of Los
Angeles Country. All persons interested in recent and/or fossil mollusks
are invited to attend. Presentations and discussions are encouraged but
should be informal and briefly cover current research interests. (Attendees
 will have a surprise presentation -- to be further elaborated on in the
next announcement.) A slide projector and/or overhead projector will be
available for those wishing to present visual information.  Coffee, tea,
and breakfast somethings will be provided. We will break for lunch at noon.
 The Curator's Cafe (the museum cafeteria) will be open along with many
other local food establishments within walking/short driving distance.
Parking in the Museum's east Lot will be free, please mention at the staff
entrance that you are with SCUM.

Please phone, FAX, or e-mail your RSVP so we can have enough 'breakfast
somethings' on hand for everyone.

For further information, contact:

George E. Davis, Collections Manager - Crustacea. Ph.: 213 763-3450;
FAX: 213 746-2999; e-mail: [log in to unmask]

Lindsey T. Groves, Collections Manager - Malacology and Invertebrate
Paleontology.  Ph.: 213 763-3376 (Malacology), 213 744-3485
(Invert. Paleontology); FAX: 213 746-2999; e-mail: [log in to unmask]

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