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Other 1984 meetings are listed in the January and February issues. • 32nd Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Top ics. May 27-June 1. San Antonio, Tex. Contact: Judith Watson, ASMS, P.O. Box 1508, East Lansing, Mich. 48823 • 39th Annual Symposium on Mo lecular Spectroscopy. June 11-15. Columbus, Ohio. Contact: K. Narahari Rao, Ohio State University, De partment of Physics, 174 West 18th Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43210. Febru ary, p. 278 A m 7th International EPR Sympo sium. Aug. 5-9. Denver, Colo. Con tact: Gareth R. Eaton, Department of Chemistry, University of Denver, Denver, Colo. 80208 • NMR Symposium. Aug. 5-9. Den ver, Colo. Contact: Francis P. Miknis, University of Wyoming Research
• 31st Canadian Spectroscopy Symposium. Oct. 1—4. St. Jovite, Can ada. Contact: R. E. Sturgeon, Division of Chemistry, National Research Council of Canada, Montreal Rd., Ot tawa, Ontario K1A 0R9, Canada. February, p. 278 A • 5th Annual Analytical Laborato ry Managers Conference. Oct. 1819. Granville, Ohio. Contact: Thomas D. Erickson, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Technical Center, Granville, Ohio 43028; 614-587-7531 m 23rd Eastern Analytical Sympo sium. Nov. 13-16. New York, N.Y. Contact: S. David Klein, Merck & Co., Inc., P.O. Box 200/R80L-106, Rahway, N.J. 07065; 201-846-1582. February, p. 278 A • 3rd International Symposium on Advances in Electrochemical Science and Technology. Dec. ΙΟ Ι 4. Madras, India. Contact: V. Krishnan, The Society for Advancement of Electrochemical Science and Tech nology, Karaihudi 623006 (Tamil Nadu), India
For Your Information John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and the Na tional Bureau of Standards have signed an agreement for Wiley to dis seminate the Wiley/NBS Mass Spectral Database. The new data base combines information from Wi ley's "Registry of Mass Spectral Data" and the NBS's "National Institutes of Health-Environmental Protection Agency (NIH-EPA) Database." It will provide direct access to 79 560 spectra of 67 128 different compounds and is available at a basic price of $5000. For more information, contact Gary Craig, John Wiley & Sons, 605 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10158; 212-850-6360. Arizona State University is offering two short courses in spectroscopy enti tled Applied Molecular Spectrosco py: Infrared and Modern Industrial Spectroscopy. The first course, to be held July 23-27, will present basic theoretical considerations and inter pretation of spectra and includes hands-on instrument training. Use of mini- and microcomputers for data
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News processing, search and retrieval, and quantitative analysis in IR spectroscopy will also be featured. The cost is $500. The second course, to be held Aug. 6-17, is designed for chemists and industrial laboratory workers who use photographic and direct-reading spectrographic equipment. Theory, instrumentation, and applications of optical emission techniques including arc, spark, and inductively coupled plasma will be presented. Practical laboratory work will also be included. The cost for this course is $1000. Enrollment in both courses is limited. For more information, contact Jacob Fuchs, Department of Chemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz. 85287. Orion Research Incorporated has acquired Scientific Instruments Corporation, which will be operated as a wholly owned subsidiary under the name Orion Scientific Instruments (OSI). The company manufactures automated wet-chemical analyzers that use spectrophotometric and ion-selective electrode techniques for laboratory and on-line applications. For more information, contact OSI at
25 Broadway, Pleasantville, N.Y. 10570. United States Instrument Rentals has announced the formation of a new division, United States Analytical Instruments (USAI), that will rent and lease analytical instrumentation. USIA will help customers acquire instruments such as gas and liquid chromatographs, mass spectrometers, IR, UV-VIS, and AA spectrophotometers, and accessories through short-term rental (3-5 months), longterm leases, and purchase option plans. Customers will be able to select equipment manufactured by companies such as Beckman, HewlettPackard, Perkin Elmer, Varian, and Waters Associates. For more information, contact USAI at 2988 Campus Drive, San Mateo, Calif. 94403; 415572-6600. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has announced the addition of subject searching capabilities to CAS ONLINE. Bibliographic and subject searching, as well as coordinated structure and subject searching are now possible. The new CA file con-
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