Revision: January 30, 2019 Annotated Catalog of Malacological Meetings, Including Symposia and Workshops in Malacology Eugene V. Coan Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol Road, Santa Barbara, California 93105, U.S.A.; [email protected] & Alan R. Kabat Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; [email protected] ABSTRACT As a much needed bibliographic tool, an annotated catalog is given of the symposia and workshops that have been held at malacological and generalist meetings over the past eight decades, together with their resulting publications. Particularly detailed emphasis is given to the meetings of Unitas Malacologica, the American Malacological Union/Society, and the Western Society of Malacologists. INTRODUCTION This paper catalogues the symposia and workshops that have taken place at malacological meetings over the last eight decades, as well as those that have occurred at other venues. The publications that resulted from these meetings and symposia are listed, chiefly because this information can be difficult for researchers to obtain. This catalog is not complete, and it emphasizes natural history and systematics. We have not endeavored to document every malacological meeting, particularly those before 1930, and those of European and Asian national societies that do not seem to have had symposia or have resulted in publications. Moreover, we have not thoroughly covered meetings on shellfisheries, mariculture, agricultural or other pests, and mollusk-borne diseases, nor those of shell-collectors’ groups. These organizations may want to provide their own listings for the historical record. In 1996, when this paper was originally published (Coan & Kabat, 1996), we did not include symposia, meetings, and workshops relating to the Cephalopoda, other than those occurring at Unitas Malacologica, the American Malacological Society, or other meetings already covered in detail as we did not have sufficient information about them. At that time, Frederick G. Hochberg of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History informed us that he intended to publish a companion paper on the cephalopod meetings. During the ensuing years, we have attempted to obtain the relevant data, which we have incorporated into successive updated posted versions of this paper. Subsequently, Hochberg & Hatfield (2003) published a compilation of information on cephalopod meetings, based partly on their own records and 1 partly on the updated online versions of our paper. We, in turn, have now incorporated additional data from Hochberg & Hatfield (2003) into this list, but we have not attempted to include all meetings related to squid fisheries. Our catalogue is most comprehensive and detailed for the meetings of the Unitas Malacologica, the American Malacological Society (AMS) (formerly the American Malacological Union – AMU), and the Western Society of Malacologists (WSM). These three groups are listed first, followed by other groups in alphabetical order, and lastly by symposia and workshops not part of a series of malacological group meetings. In 1948, the American Malacological Union established a Pacific Division, which began to meet each year in the western United States. In 1968, this division was replaced by an independent Western Society of Malacologists; that year, the AMU-PD and WSM meetings were held concurrently. Commencing with the 1987 meeting, AMU abstracts were no longer published separately and were only issued at the meeting. Commencing with the 1999 meeting, the AMU/AMS abstracts are available on the AMS website, www.malacological.org. However, at joint AMS- WSM meetings, the WSM Annual Report also contains abstracts of many AMS papers. We would greatly appreciate additional information on previous and future meetings and symposia to update this publication for eventual addenda. One benefit of this catalog is to draw attention to topics neglected at past meetings. We define a symposium as a pre-planned program of related papers, most or all invited. This is as opposed to a set of contributed, non-solicited papers grouped by topic in formulating a meeting agenda. Symposia generally have one or more organizers; related-paper sessions have only a chair. Obviously, there is not a sharp distinction between these categories. The symposia listed here commence with one in 1935, and include at least two that had only four participants. Workshops are generally several-day-long study sessions, often including field or laboratory work, and frequently resulting in special publications. Over the past several decades, several trends are readily observable: an increase in the number of “how-to” workshops focused on methodological topics, and a decline in the number of “stand alone” conferences not associated with the annual meetings of malacological societies (Kabat et al., 2010). In the following catalog, the year of the meeting is given, followed by the congress or meeting number (if applicable), the location and dates of the meeting, the sponsoring organization(s) and meeting organizers (if applicable), and the resulting publication(s), first for the meeting as a whole, then for any symposia or workshop publications. The symposia publications are full-length papers or proceedings unless specifically indicated as only abstracts or a report. Proceedings are assumed to be edited by the meeting organizer unless otherwise indicated. Meeting abstracts are generally not listed if there was a subsequently issued proceedings volume. The documented dates of publication of these works have been included when known. The dates for the American Malacological Bulletin and its predecessors are taken from Coan & Kabat (2007); those for Malacologia are taken from Coan (2008). 2 HOW TO CITE THIS PUBLICATION Coan, E.V. & A. R. Kabat. 2019 (January). Annotated catalog of malacological meetings, including symposia and workshops in malacology. American Malacological Society: http://www.malacological.org/epubs.html ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We acknowledge the assistance of the following persons who provided information for this listing: Rüdiger Bieler, Arthur Bogan, Alfredo Castro-Vazquez, Robert Cowie, Annie Dhondt, Tamás Domokos, Zoltan Feher, Levente Füköh, Philip Hoedemaeker, Matthew James, Konstantin A. Lutaenko, Bernard Métivier, Richard E. 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Tropical Natural History (Bangkok), Supplement 3: 24 [abstract]. TABLE OF CONTENTS European Malacological Congresses / Unitas Malacologica . 4 American Malacological Union / American Malacological Society . 15 Western Society of Malacologists . 34 Other malacological societies and workshop series . 44 3 Other Cephalopoda Symposia and Workshops . 118 Other Symposia and Workshops . 128 European Malacological Congresses/Unitas Malacologica 1962 1 London, England, United Kingdom, 17-21 September. L. R. Cox and J. F. Peake, eds., 1965. Proceedings. Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and Malacological Society of London, viii + 266 pp. H. E. J. Biggs, 1963. The first European Malacological Congress: a brief report. Journal of Conchology, 25(5): 207-211. L. J. M. Butot, 1962. [Report]. Correspondentieblad van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging, 101: 1043-1044. 1965 2 Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-14 August. G. H. Peterson and J. Knudsen, eds., 1966 (31 December). [Proceedings]. Malacologia 5(1): vi + 93 pp. “Malacology and Parasitology,” Henning Lemche, organizer [abstracts and papers in proceedings volume, Malacologia 5(1): 15-36]. L. J. M. Butot & J. G. J. Kuiper, 1965. [report]. Correspondentieblad van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging 115: 1200-1205. 1968 3 Vienna, Austria, 2-6 September. O. E. Paget, ed., 1970 (6 June) [“November 1969”]. [Proceedings]. Malacologia 9(1): viii + 338 pp. “Molluscs as Parasites or their Transmitters,” H. Mohorst, John B. Burch & J. A. v. Eeden, organizers [abstracts and papers in proceedings volume, Malacologia 9(1): 25-44]. A. R. Mead, 1968. The Third European Malacological Congress. American Malacological Union, Annual Report for 1968: 61-64. 1971 4 Geneva, Switzerland, 7-11 September. E. E. Binder, ed., 1974 (23 January) [“1973”]. [Proceedings]. Malacologia 14(1-2): vi + 478 pp. 1974 5 Milan, Italy, 3-7 September. F. Toffoletto, ed., 1977 (12 August). [Proceedings]. Malacologia 16(1): vi + 331 pp. “Polymorphism in Gastropoda,” C. B. Goodhart, organizer [papers in proceedings volume, Malacologia 16(1): 9-47]. 4 Anonymous, 1974 (September). [abstracts on Littorinidae]. Littorinid Tidings 2: 19-20. A. C. van Bruggen, 1974. [report]. Correspondentieblad van de Nederlandse Malacologische