Monday 19 October (Indoor Meeting): 'The Ediacaran Biota of Charnwood Forest: the behind the scenes story'. Speaker: Dr. Mike Howe (Chief Curator and Head of the National Geological Repository at the British Geological Survey). There are several speakers talking on the results of the work and the implications for the origins of multicellular organisms, but I believe that original discovery of the fossils around 1849 and their subsequent erroneous discrediting, plus the pivotal role played by a local society – Section C, LLPS (Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society) – in reinvigorating Ediacaran research in the UK, makes an equally interesting story.
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