Notice
Nominations for council sought
The Palaeontographical Society is open for nominations to council for 2010-2013. The council meets twice a year and is responsible for overseeing the running of the Society and for providing guidance on how it can best serve its membership's needs. Any member of the Society can nominate a candidate, and names will be considered at the next annual general meeting in April. Members should nominate a candidate by sending an email to the secretary (p.barrett@nhm.ac.uk or s.long@nhm.ac.uk) together with a statement from the candidate that he/she is willing to be considered.
Welcome
The Palaeontographical Society exists for the purpose of figuring and describing British fossils by publishing monographs. Information about how to join the Society and how to obtain its publications can be found on this site. Intending authors can also download information about submitting a manuscript.
Annual Address 2010
The 4th Annual Address of the Palaeontographical Society will be held on Wednesday 14th April in the Flett Lecture Theatre of the Natural History Museum, London. The address was given by Professor Paul Pearson (University of Cardiff) on the topic of: "Species and time". Professor Pearson research interests are in extracting climatic information from deep sea cores and sediments. He specializes in evolutionary and geochemical studies of planktonic foraminifera, and what they tell us about the long history of climate change on Earth. He has helped develop new proxies for determining past seawater pH and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, and hence the history of the greenhouse effect. His studies range from the Cretaceous period to Recent. He is currently involved in a large project looking at foraminiferan species through time.
A list of previous annual addresses can be found on this page.
Palaeontographical Society Research Fund
Awards from the Palaeontological Society Research Fund are made to assist palaeontological research (travel, visits to museums, fieldwork, etc.) within the Society’s remit of describing the fossil fauna and flora of the British Isles.
The next deadline for applications is the 28th of February, 2010.
Please go to this page for full details of eligibility criteria and how to apply.