<p> BBS 2017 AGM and Paper-reading Meeting, 6-8 October 2017</p><p>The AGM and Paper-reading Meeting will be held at British Antarctic Survey, Madingley Rd, Cambridge, CB3 0ET (BAS) in Cambridge on Saturday 7 October 2017, with committee meetings in the afternoon of Friday 6 October and a field excursion on Sunday 8 October. The meeting celebrates the centenary of the Cambridgeshire bryologist Harold Whitehouse (1917-2000).</p><p>PROGRAMME</p><p>Friday 6 October 2 pm onwards Committee meetings, BAS. 8 pm Council Meeting, 11 Chaucer Rd, Cambridge CB2 7EB.</p><p>Saturday 7 October 10 am (registration), 10.30 (start) to 5.30 pm including Paper-reading meeting and (at 4.30) AGM, BAS. Speakers at the meeting include Jeff Duckett and Ray Tangney on Harold Whitehouse’s life and legacy; Mark Hill on changes in the Cambridgeshire bryophyte flora; Richard Jefferson on bryophytes and insects; Des Callaghan on the effects of hydroelectric power developments on populations of hyperoceanic liverworts; Aline Horwath on the magic of mossy cloud forest (and bryophytes as environmental indicators); and Ron Porley on the bryophytes of Portugal. 19.30 pm Evening meal (for those who book) at a local restaurant.</p><p>Sunday 8 October 10.15 am onwards. Field excursion to Chippenham Fen NNR (see below).</p><p>NOTES</p><p>Location of the meeting For the BAS site, see https://www.bas.ac.uk/about/contact- bas/travel-to-bas-cambridge/</p><p>Parking at the BAS site People arriving by car for the Friday committee meetings will be able to park around the site if they can find a parking place. On Saturday there should be less pressure on places.</p><p>Coffee & tea, Saturday 7 October We will provide coffee, tea and biscuits at the breaks for a small charge.</p><p>Lunch, Saturday 7 October There are no catering facilities available to us on the site, so we suggest that you bring your own lunch if you want to avoid a time- consuming trip into Cambridge or Coton to eat out. If required, we could buy pre- ordered sandwiches and bring them in on Saturday morning. BAS Herbarium Dr Helen Peat will be happy to show people round the BAS herbarium on Friday or Saturday, particularly if she knows what people would like to see. Let us know if you are interested in this. For details of the Herbarium, see https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/collections/herbarium/ and http://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/bas</p><p>Evening meal, Saturday 7 October We will book a table in a local restaurant for those who would like to eat together on Saturday evening. Let us know if you would like to join the party.</p><p>Overnight accommodation Participants will need to book their own accommodation. There is a range of options but the options are not particularly cheap, unfortunately – we have therefore tried to ensure that other expenses are reduced to a minimum and there will be no conference fee. David Long tells us that he has used Airbnb to book accommodation in Cambridge and he has been pleased with the results. </p><p>Field excursion, Sunday 8 October Conditions can still be rather dry for bryology in East Anglia in early October. We are therefore suggesting Chippenham Fen NNR, 22 km ENE of Cambridge, which has a complex of fenland and woodland habitats (as well as a rich vascular plant flora including the newly described hybrid between Apium (now Helosciadium) nodiflorum and Berula erecta at its type locality. Waterproof footwear is recommended.</p><p>REGISTRATION</p><p>To register, please e-mail the following details to Chris at [email protected] We will send further details of the programme nearer the time.</p><p>Name E-mail</p><p>Mobile ‘phone number (if you have one)</p><p>Please tick the options of interest to you (details to follow later):</p><p>Purchase of sandwiches for lunch on Saturday □</p><p>Look round BAS herbarium on Friday □ Saturday □</p><p>Evening meal, Saturday □ (indicate number if you would also like to bring partner/friends who will not be registering for the meeting themselves)</p><p>Chris Preston ([email protected]) & Jonathan Shanklin ([email protected])</p>