Unless otherwise advised all Spring and Summer (April - September) evening meetings will take place on the third Tuesday of each month at the Oasis Academy Lord's Hill, Romsey Road, Lord's Hill, Southampton, SO16 8FA beginning at 19:30. Car park access is on Redbridge Lane and plenty of free parking is available. Directions from Google Maps can be accessed from here: Venue map. We usually finish around 21:30.
For the Autumn and Winter months, October to March, we hold online meetings using Zoom where we are able to enjoy expert speakers from all around the world.

At most evening meetings there will usually be a "Members' Display" of rock, mineral & fossil specimens (or any other related material) bought along and displayed by the members on a theme loosely related to the evening activity. There are occasionally specimens for sale, and for free, at some meetings.

Guests are very welcome to come along to any evening meeting as a visitor to meet SMFS and the members before considering joining the Society. If you wish to join us on Zoom please contact us for joining details.

Pyrope variety of garnet.

Evening Meeting - A talk by Mr Barry Pitt on "The Life and Mines of Peter Clymo." Clymo was a 19th century mine captain who operated the higly successful Caradon Mines area.

Members' Display: Minerals from South Caradon Mine and Menheniot area.

Quartz variety amethyst.

Evening Meeting - Dr Roy Smith from the University of Portsmouth. Title to be advised but it will be paleontology.

Members' Display: To be advised.

Beryl variety aquamarine.

Zoom Meeting - Presentation by Dr Mick Oates, retired professional geologist who has had a lifelong enthusiasm for rocks and fossils and in particular ammonites! "Ammonites - from Mythology and Folklore to Geological Relevance."

Members' Display: Not applicable.

Diamond in matrix.

Evening Meeting - Resumption of our evening meetings at our new venue with Mr Barry Pitt on "The Cornish Tin Myth" Cornish ore production, what was mined and where.

Members' Display: Cornish tin specimens.

Beryl variety emerald.

Field Trip - A long weekend field trip to collect minerals in Cornwall. SMFS Members only

Evening Meeting - "Bird Evolution" a talk by Dr Neil Gostling, Senior Lecturer in Evolution and Palaeobiology at Southampton University.

Members' Display: Bird fossils and related material.

Orthoclase feldspar variety moonstone.

Evening Meeting - "The Collections of Cumberland House Natural History Museum" a presentation by Christine Taylor, Curator of Natural History.

Members' Display: Your former museum specimens with their history.

Corundum variety ruby.

SMFS Annual General Meeting (Members only) followed by Photographic Competition and Field Trip report.

Members' Display: Your photographs.

Olivine variety peridot.

Evening Meeting - Our Annual Swap and Sell meeting for members to pass along any material that they wish to dispose of and for others to acquire some more material.

Members' Display: Not applicable.

Corundum variety sapphire.

Hampshire Mineral & Fossil Show. For more information go to the Show Page. See you all there!

Evening Meeting - A presentation titled "Discovering the early evolutionary history of sea urchins." by Dr Jeff Thompson, Lecturer, University of Southampton.

Members' Display: UK fossils.

Opal.

Evening Meeting - SMFS Chairman, Ian Dunne presenting "Volcanoes, plate tectonics and how we got where we are." From the early earth and the first formation of the continents to the effect that the moving continents have had on the history of life, with a smattering of the history of this fascinating subject including volcanoes.

Members' Display: Volcanic rocks and minerals.

Topaz.

Geologists' Association Festival of Geology. The Geologists' Association, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. W1J 0DU. 10:30 to 16:30 Further information from: Geologists' Association

Sussex Mineral & Fossil Show. Haywards Heath College, Harlands Road, Haywards Heath, Sussex. RH16 1LT. Further information: www.smls.online/show

Evening Meeting - A presentation by Joerg Wiedenmann, Professor of Biological Oceanography at the University of Southampton, titled "Jurassic Coral Park: What can fossils tell us about the capacity of reef corals to survive climate change?"

Members' Display: Corals, both extinct and recent.

Turquoise.

Evening meeting - Ultra-Violet Fluorescence and fluorescent specimens.

Members' Display: Fluorescent minerals and fossils.