BBS Committees

Executive Committee
Bequest Committee
Conservation and Recording Committee
Honorary Membership Committee
Nomenclature Committee
Publications Committee
Tropical Bryology Group

Bequest Committee
Members:
Dr J W Bates, Dr M.A.S Burton, J.J.Graham, Dr. D.F.Chamberlain (Treasurer, ex officio), Dr J.D. Sleath.
Terms of reference:
To put forward recommendations for administering this fund.
Convener: Dr D.F.Chamberlain

Conservation and Recording Committee
Members:
S.D.S.Bosanquet (Recorder for Liverworts, ex officio), T.L.Blockeel (Recorder for Mosses, ex officio), C.Cheffings, J.L. Denyer, D.Genney, Dr M.O. Hill (Recording Secretary, ex officio), N.G. Hodgetts (Conservation Officer, ex officio), N.Lockhart, Dr D.T. Holyoak, Dr E M Kungu, S.L. Pilkington, Dr C.D. Preston, G.P. Rothero, D.T. Streeter, Mike Sutcliffe, Tim Wilkins.

Terms of reference:
The Committee is responsible for recommending policies to the Council for the conservation of bryophytes and their habitats and the recording activities of the Society, and for supporting the Conservation Officer and the Recording Secretary in their work. Its particular activities will include:

1. Recommending measures to ensure that bryophytes and their habitats are given proper consideration by government agencies, local authorities, and non-governmental organisations concerned with conservation.
   
2. Identifying and disseminating information on localities and habitats that are important for bryophytes.
   
3. Encouraging a positive attitude to conservation of bryophytes and their habitats among the general public and especially among landowners and land managers.
   
4. Advising and assisting in the U.K. Biodiversity Action Plans, local biodiversity initiatives, and other measures to protect bryophytes and their habitats.
   
5. Seeking to ensure that the activities of the B.B.S. and its members are in accordance with the 'Code of Conduct for the conservation and enjoyment of wild plants' and encouraging a positive contribution to bryophyte conservation from the B.B.S. and its members.
   
6. Co-ordinating and reviewing the Society's recording activities to ensure that they contribute to the Society's objectives and, where appropriate, to the work of other national and local conservation and recording bodies.
   
7. Undertaking a regular review of the storage arrangements for the records that are accumulated by the Society and making recommendations to ensure that they are preserved in a format which is both permanent and accessible.
   
8. Advising on the preparation and periodic revision of a British Bryophyte Red Data Book.
   
   See Bulletin 76: (February 2001) for further details.
   Convener: M O Hill

Honorary Membership Committee
Members:
President, General Secretary, previous two Past Presidents.

Terms of reference:
To advise Council on the nomination of Honorary Members.

Convener: General Secretary.

Nomenclature committee

[suspended until required]

Members:
S.D.S.Bosanquet (Recorder for Hepatics, ex officio ), T.L. Blockeel, Dr M.O. Hill, Dr D.T. Holyoak, Dr D.G. Long, G.P. Rothero (Recorder for Mosses, ex officio )

Terms of reference

• To maintain a list of bryophyte taxa in the British and Irish flora
• To add new taxa when they are discovered
• To add taxa when revisions seem to justify them
• To propose taxa to be deleted
• To propose amendments to nomenclature, including amendments to taxonomic rank
• To advise the Recorder of Mosses and the Recorder of Liverworts when a new Census Catalogue or checklist revision is due

Contacts: TH Blackstock, GP Rothero

Publications Committee
Members:
Mr Ian Atherton (Editor of Field Bryology), Mr Andrew Branson, Dr David Chamberlain (Treasurer), Prof. Jeff Duckett (Chairman), Dr Liz Kungu (Managing Editor of Journal of Bryology), Dr Jenny Rowntree, Dr Jonathan Sleath (Website Editor)
Terms of reference:
The Committee is an advisory group that is responsible for monitoring all of the publishing activities of the Society and for making recommendations to the Council to ensure that the Society's publishing activities meet its objectives and that they are as cost-effective as possible.

Its particular activities will include

1. To evaluate proposals for new publications, including proposals for marketing, and to make appropriate recommendations to Council.
   
2. To establish appropriate production dates for new publications and to monitor progress to ensure that, insofar as it is practicable, deadlines are achieved or, where it becomes clear that they cannot be met, to recommend appropriate alternative action.
   
3. To review the Society's periodicals (currently, J. Bryol. and Field Bryology) on a regular basis to ensure that they continue to meet the Society's objectives, that they remain attractive and informative and that they are held in high regard within the bryological 'community'.
   
   See Bulletin 77: (July 2001) for further details.
   Convener: Dr J G Duckett

Tropical Bryology Group
Members of Executive Committee:
N.G. Hodgetts, Dr D.G. Long, Dr A.E. Newton, B.J. O'Shea, Dr M. Price, M.J. Wigginton.

Terms of reference:

1. to promote the study of tropical bryophytes;
   
2. to involve as many members of the B.B.S. as possible in this activity;
   
3. to support bryologists working in the tropics.
   
   Convener: Joanna Wilbraham, Dept of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD.