The
Scottish Gemmological Association
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News (update on 21st October 2009) Membership News We now have about 70 members all signed up and we're now sending out membership cards and the programme for the next 6 months, culminating in our conference in May We hope to build a members area of the website shortly. If you haven't signed up yet then please fill in the form and send it to us. Our Committee met on Sunday the 11th October and approved new applications for membership. All new members will be informed by letter and will receive Membership and Programme cards Our next Committee meeting will take place on Friday the 13th November. Campbell Bridges We were all shocked and and saddened by the violent death of Campbell Bridges in Kenya on August 11th. Campbell was a dynamic geologist and gemmologist famous for his ruby and tsavorite mines and for bringing tanzanite into the gemstone world. Campbell was a warm and friendly man who shared his incredible enthusiasm with everyone. We had the privilege of hearing him speak at one of the Branch evenings in Edinburgh. He will be sadly missed and our thoughts are with his family at this terrible time. You can read about him and his mining story at
Membership Membership of the SGA is open to anyone who has a genuine interest in Gemmology. We are keen to welcome anyone to our events and to encourage them to join the SGA. For safety reasons, we need to restrict our events to members and guests of members only. The events are therefore not open to members of the public. Membership forms are now available and can be downloaded by
clicking on this link
Once completed, the forms should be posted to our Secretary at the following address: The Secretary The Scottish Gemmological Association PO BOx 28309 Edinburgh EH9 8AG Events The Autumn programme of evening lectures and demonstrations has begun and you can see the programme under Events opposite. We've completed the schedule for Spring 2010 too and you can see this under Events too Conference 2010 We are also very pleased to have completed the Programme for our Annual Conference in 2010 in Perth and you can read about the provisional programme under Conference 2010. Our principal speaker is Dr. Dietmar Schwarz from the Gubelin Laboratory in Switzerland. Dr. Schwarz is a noted world expert in gemmology and will speak on Emeralds and Minerals and Gem Mines of the World.
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