The SVPCA 50/SPPC 11 was hosted by the Sedgwick Museum & Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. This was particularly fitting because the first meeting was held in Cambridge all those years ago. Accommodation was at Emmanuel College, very conveniently placed (about 150 metres from the Museum). See the SPPC web site, www.preparator.org, for details of the 11th Symposium of Palaeontological Preparation and Conservation Our "SVPeCiAL" meeting Organising Commitee Alison Allen - Conference administrator SVPCA & SPPC David Norman - SVPCA Paul Upchurch - SVPCA Leslie Noè - SPPC