Membership Basics
We'd be delighted to welcome you as a member! Whether you bring expert knowledge or novice questions, we appreciate the value you add to our meetings and activities.
Annual dues are $20 individual, $25 family. Benefits include:
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our award-winning newsletter,
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excellent monthly programs,
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many opportunities for informal discussion with Smithsonian mineral scientists and other eminent and friendly mineral experts,
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MSDC field trips like planned trips to the mineralogical labs and museum at James Madison University or to explore Mount Rogers, VA, with a geology professor from George Washington University,
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advance notice about mineral and gem shows, local lectures in other venues, and similar ways of learning more about rocks and minerals,
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informal advice from many members experienced in local & international collecting, mineral display & cataloguing, mineral identification, micro-minerals, meteorites, fluorescents, fossils, Wildacres, the ins and outs of the Tucson Show and the Rochester Symposium, etc.,
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input into planning club programs, so that they can respond to members' interests,
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camaraderie with a group of people who are warmly welcoming and enthusiastic learners, whether they are newly curious about rocks and minerals or have spent a career in geology.
How To Join
Sign up at a meeting, contact us, or print the membership form 
and mail to the address on the form together with annual dues ($20 individual, $25 family). If you become a new member late in the year, your membership will extend through the following year.
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We are affiliated with the
American Federation of Mineralogical Societies (AFMS) http://www.amfed.org and we are a founding member of the Eastern Federation of Mineralogical and Lapidary Societies (EFMLS) http://www.amfed.org/efmls |