Symposium land snails
27-09-2008 21:27
Today the Dutch Malacological Society held a
symposium on land snails, commemorating the 65th
birthday of Prof. Edi Gittenberger
(Naturalis/University Leiden). The programme of the
symposium consisted of lectures by longstanding
friends and colleagues or former PhD-students, all on
various aspects of land snails. My presentation was
on species distribution modeling and was jointly
prepared with Francisco Borrero.
Adri and Edi Gittenberger
At the end of the meeting Edi Gittenberger was awarded a special medal for his nearly 50 years of contributions to malacology. And he was given the first copy of the ‘Gittenberger Festschrift’ of Basteria, in which 32 papers are published by 43 authors, mostly on land molluscs. My contributions can be found here.
Edi Gittenberger glances through his Festschrift. In the background the cover with a similar situation, pictured in 1985.
Adri and Edi Gittenberger
At the end of the meeting Edi Gittenberger was awarded a special medal for his nearly 50 years of contributions to malacology. And he was given the first copy of the ‘Gittenberger Festschrift’ of Basteria, in which 32 papers are published by 43 authors, mostly on land molluscs. My contributions can be found here.
Edi Gittenberger glances through his Festschrift. In the background the cover with a similar situation, pictured in 1985.