[NHCOLL-L:2501] SPNHC 2005 Registration and Abstracts

[Rob Huxley]

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Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections - 20th
Annual Meeting 

"REALISING STANDARDS" June 12-19, 2005 Natural History Museum London, UK


Early registration fees are 160GBP for members of host organizations and
200GBP for non-members. Full details of final conference and workshop
fees, day and student rates etc. can be viewed on the spreadsheet
located on the conference website www.nhm.ac.uk/spnhc2005 
Closing date for submission of abstracts is March 1st 2005. Abstracts
should be submitted via e-mail to spnhc2005 at nhm.ac.uk with conference
abstract placed in the subject header. Guidelines are available on the
website.
The Conference 
Celebrating 20 years of the Society for the Preservation of Natural
History Collections (SPNHC), the theme for the first meeting outside
North America will be current standards in the care and management of
natural history collections. A work-shop will review the assessment of
current standards, benchmarking of collection condition and
implementation of base line standards for natural science collections.
Two more workshops will focus on Integrated Pest Management and Risk
Management. The conference will also focus on the building and
strengthening of international networks.
Pre-conference Field trips will be to: 1) Down House (Darwin's home in
Kent) plus visit to nature reserve. 2) The Walter Rothschild Zoological
Museum, Tring; the Natural History Museum's site in Hertfordshire plus
bird watching 3) The Oxford University Museum of Natural History plus
geology fieldtrip 4) The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew including herbarium.

This meeting is organised by the Society for the Preservation of Natural
History Collections in conjunction with The Natural Sciences Collections
Association, The Geological Curators Group, ICOM-CC Natural History
Collections Working Group and is hosted by The Natural History Museum,
London.
Enquiries to spnhc2005 at nhm.ac.uk 

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