page_title: Malacological Society of London
section_title: Structure
hierarchical_section_title: Malacological Society of London / Structure
caption_attribution_description: English: Woodburytype portrait of Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen.
context_page_description: The Malacological Society of London is a British learned society and charitable organisation concerned with malacology, the study of molluscs, a large phylum of invertebrate animals divided into nine or ten taxonomic classes, of which two are extinct.
  Founded in 1893, the Society was one of the earliest such national bodies anywhere in the world concerned only with molluscs, although the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland is older.
context_section_description: Membership of the society is open to all by subscription, with three classes of members, Student Members, Ordinary Members and Honorary Members, of whom there can be no more than five at any one time.
  The Society's affairs are managed by a Council consisting of officers and members elected at annual general meetings. Six elected members of the Council, who are called Councillors, serve for three years each, with two vacancies arising every year. The officers are a President, two Vice-presidents, an Honorary Secretary and an Honorary Treasurer, a Membership Secretary, the Editor of the Journal and the Editor of The Malacologist, an Awards Officer, and a Web manager. Up to four additional members of the Council can be co-opted.
caption: Henry Godwin-Austen, an early President
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