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The 30Th Polish Malacological Seminar Folia Malacol. 23(1): 51–86 http://dx.doi.org/10.12657/folmal.023.001 THE 30TH POLISH MALACOLOGICAL SEMINAR SEMINAR REPORT Only last year I (your on-duty reporter since pants included 57 (Fig. 1), plus one who hadn’t reg- 1998) complained about how it was “very difficult to istered but nevertheless appeared for half a day. The write a DIFFERENT seminar report each year, that representatives of the sponsoring companies failed is unless something unusual happens, but nothing to appear as well, but they sponsored us anyway, so does”. Now at last something unusual did happen. they’re forgiven. The neighbours were not very good It’s not usual to celebrate your 30th anniversary, at attending, though we had sent them special in- right? You don’t celebrate it every year, or even every vitations, but that was mainly because our friendly 30 years, so it’s a unique event. Anyway, a few weeks Czech contingent had their own meeting at roughly ago we celebrated our thirtieth birthday. Precisely the same time. As a result, the only participants from speaking, it was the 30th anniversary of our first abroad were TEREZA kořínková and roBert a. D. Malacological Seminar but, though the Association cameron who was also the driver of the Seminar’s of Polish Malacologists came into being ten years Vehicle. later, in a sense it was the Association’s 30th birth- Even though most of the neighbours failed us, the day. We wouldn’t have come into existence if not for attendance was good. As usual, some people com- the Seminars. Let me remind you, we owe the fact plained about the distance (the very south of the that the Seminars started at all to Professor STEFAN country, no very convenient public transport, etc.). W. ALEXANDROWICZ who, thirty years ago, made an But please, look at the map in Fig. 2 – the map shows inventory of malacologists and invited us all to the all the Seminar sites: can you see one which would First Seminar (and organised the next six, and it was be equally accessible to everybody? Also, some tra- pre-internet and pre-e-mail). Thank you Stefan! ditionally arrived late and/or left early. The location This year the Seminar was held in October (8– was the village of Łopuszna near Nowy Targ, a very 10); autumn meetings happen rarely, and when they long village in a long valley, and our conference cen- do, it’s mainly because of organisational or financial tre was very close to the upper end of it. Łopuszna circumstances. This one was an autumn seminar is not far from our birth place – Krościenko on the because we had hoped to get some funds from the Dunajec. Even though the cost per person was not Ministry, and such funds are not available in early exorbitant (cheaper than the previous year), there spring, so we decided to make it October. Alas, the were still some people who couldn’t attend for finan- Ministry did not give us a penny (their justification cial reasons. was that it was not “far-reaching enough”, meaning The organising institutions were Wrocław that we were not cancer research, or EU economy, or University, University of Environmental and Life something), so all the waiting and changing of the Sciences in Wrocław and the Association of Polish dates was in vain. We managed nevertheless, as we Malacologists; the organising committee included usually do. Beata m. PokrySzko, eLżBieta kuźnik-kowaLSka, The number of participants from Poland, those małgorzata Proćków, tomaSz kałuSki and who registered, was 61 plus one non-malacological tomaSz k. maLtz, all except the Association’s wife and one non-malacological husband. Then there President, tomaSz kałuSki (Poznań) from Wrocław. were some FTAs [= failed to appear, though they Being both one of the Organisers and the author of had registered; but they had good reasons]: ANNA this report I’m in an embarrassing position (it’s un- StańczykowSka, Beata JakuBik, Józef Domagała, thinkable to thank yourself for organising something), macieJ LigaSzewSki and BrygiDa wawrzyniak- but at least I can wholeheartedly thank all my co-or- wyDrowSka. So in the end the list of native partici- ganisers: all the Wrocław people mentioned above 52 Seminar Report Fig. 1. All of us except those few who arrived later. Photo: a. witkowSki and the President. Chapeau bas! You were great! DariuSz SkarżyńSki and our Rector Magnificus The sponsors were the Natural History Museum, marek BoJarSki), and the Institute of Biology, Wrocław University, the Faculty of Biology, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences in University (here we thank both our Faculty Dean Wrocław, the Association of Polish Malacologists, Carl Zeiss and a company with mysterious initials KAWA.SKA; we thank them, too. Hel Słupsk Every participant was given a set of handouts: Gdynia Lubin what we called a “seminar vessel” because we could Giżycko never decide if it was a glass, a vase, or a salad bowl, Świnoujście Tleń with a clausiliid on it, a pen, a notebook (with a snail Ciechocinek on it), the Abstract Book, the programme, three Serpelice gastropod postcards (one with a snail, one with a Obrzycko n/Bugiem semislug and one with a slug) and two historic vol- umes: the old one published for the 15th Seminar, Łódź-Rogi Boszkowo and the new one, published for our 30th anniversary (Fig. 3). The Abstract Book was edited by tomaSz k. Huta Szklana maLtz, Beata m. PokrySzko, tomaSz kałuSki and Mysłów Wólka małgorzata Proćków, and had two Cepaea on the Milanowska Kudowa-Zdrój cover. Thank you, Editors! The artists who took the Ojców photos and/or designed the things were great: two of the postcards (snail and semislug) and the photo Krościenko on the front cover of the Abstract Book – roBert Łopuszna n/Dunajcem a. D. cameron, Abstract Book cover design and the clausiliid on the Seminar vessel – tomaSz k. maLtz, Fig. 2. Map of all the Seminars (the 30th indicated with one postcard (slug) – JaroSław Proćków, photo on the red arrow) the back cover of the Abstract Book – małgorzata Seminar Report 53 Uniwersytet Wrocławski Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu Beata M. Pokryszko, Andrzej Lesicki, Tomasz K. Maltz Stowarzyszenie Malakologów Polskich MALAKOLOGIA POLSKA PROBLEMY WSPÓŁCZESNEJ MALAKOLOGII HISTORIA STAN OBECNY PERSPEKTYWY (2000–2014) 2014 XXX KRAJOWE SEMINARIUM MALAKOLOGICZNE ŁOPUSZNA, 8–10.10.2014 Fig. 3. Abstract volume and the new historic volume Proćków. For all the various attributes of the wanted to have time to celebrate and go to the excur- Seminar see Figs 4–9. sion; fortunately about half of the oral presentations Nearly half of the participants, plus all the were short communications. There were supposed to Organisers, arrived on Tuesday (7th). The be 19 posters, but we ended up with 17, again be- Registration Desk worked since Wednesday morn- cause some people failed to attend. The chairpersons ing. We placed a welcoming poster with many snails were (in alphabetical order) małgorzata ożgo, on it near the desk (initially we intended to put it anDrzeJ Piechocki, anDrzeJ Samek, małgorzata on the door outside, or on the balustrade, but then STRZELEC, ewa Stworzewicz, anDrzeJ wiktor, we thought: well, what if it rains? Which it nev- eLżBieta żBikowSka. For snapshots of the poster er did), and the Seminar itself started officially on and oral sessions see Figs 10–17. Wednesday (8th), at 11.45. The opening ceremony The real sessions started on Wednesday after was very short, with only the President and one of lunch – the three sessions were separated by coffee the Organisers speaking. Because we felt we should breaks, and followed by the General Assembly of the celebrate not only during the banquet, but also in a Association. The dinner was actually a barbecue in a more formal way, and before we started partaking of nearby building pretending to be a shepherds’ hut, beer, wine and other beverages, in the first session with live fire, grilled meats and quite a lot of beer we had a historic lecture, summarising our activities (Fig. 21). On Thursday morning we went for the ex- during the 30 years (by the author of this report), cursion – rafting on the Dunajec River. The weather and a general lecture about geological events and was splendid and warm (+24oC), and, apart from placing them in time (by witek aLexanDrowicz). our four rafts, there was nobody on the river (Figs The oral presentations were fairly many, and they 18–20). The autumn colours were just beginning to took all the Wednesday afternoon, Thursday after- show. Most participants said the excursion was fan- noon and Friday till lunch. Apart from the two lec- tastic, but maybe they were just being polite… On tures at the opening ceremony, the number of oral the way back those who wanted to could visit the presentations in the programme was 35, but three fish farm in Łopuszna (Fig. 22). Besides commer- had to be cancelled because their authors failed to cial trout, the farm breeds the huchen (also known materialise. Still, 32 was a lot, especially that we as Danube salmon, Hucho hucho) for reintroduction 54 Seminar Report purposes. The huchen is the biggest salmonid fish oral presentations, the poster session and then the in Europe, it can be up to 1.5 m long, or more. Some banquet. The great attraction of the banquet was the didn’t go to the excursion but used the time to col- anniversary cake, with snails on it; it was cut by the lect their favourite molluscs instead; some arrived President. During the banquet our “father”, STEFAN well before the Seminar started, or stayed after the W.
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