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troscopy in flames, furnaces, and plasmas, and advances in emission spectroscopy. In addition, all the areas of spectroscopy plus gas chromatography will have general sessions. Harvey W. Wiley Award and AOAC Scholarship
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The Association of Official Analytical Chemists invites nominations for the 16th AOAC Harvey W. WileyAward for outstanding contributions to analytical chemistry. Nominees must be from North America but need not be AOAC members to be considered for this $750 annual award. The purpose of this award, established in 1956 to honor Dr. Wiley, who is sometimes called the Father of the Original Pure Food and Drug Law and who founded AOAC, is to recognize an outstanding scientist(s) for contributions in analytical methodology in areas of interest to agriculture and public health. Nomination forms and further information may be obtained from Luther G. Ensminger, AOAC, Box 540, Benjamin Franklin Station, Washington, D.C. 20044. Deadline for nominations is April 1, 1972. AOAC also invites nominations for the 1972-73 scholarship award which consists of $500 for each of two years to an undergraduate college student majoring in a scientific area of importance to agriculture or public health. Details of qualifications for this award are available from Luther Ensminger. Forensic Science Elsevier Sequoia S.A. of Switzerland has announced that they will publish an International Journal of the Forensic Sciences quarterly with H. A. Shapiro of Johannesburg as editor-inchief and C. H. Wecht of Pittsburgh as an editorial advisor for the Americas. An international editorial board of 14 persons will assist the editor. A variety of contributions to scientific knowledge bearing on forensic problems will be included so the journal should be of interest to forensic practitioners, whether they be lawyers or scientific experts helping the courts, according to the publisher. The journal will publish reports of original research, general reviews, case reports, book reviews, and general news of interest to forensic specialists. The subscription price for four issues of Vol 1 is about $26 U.S. or Sfr. 101. Orders should be placed with Elsevier Sequoia S.A., P.O. Box 851, 1001 Lausanne 1, Switzerland. Free sample copies are available from the publisher.
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Information Service for Mass Spectroscopists New selective current awareness services for mass spectroscopists aim to select data from a comprehensive search of literature important for the mass spectroscopist or for the chemist interested in a particular branch of chemistry. For the mass spectroscopist, only important items such as those dealing with theoretical matters, instrumentation, new techniques and applications, and bibliographic papers are selected. For the chemist, a range of services are available depending on the interests of the chemists. Costs of these services vary according to the material desired. Detailed information on the services and charges are available by writing to the Scientific Documentation Centre, Ltd., Halbeath House, Dunfermline, FIFE, U.K. Coming Events Apr. 3 to 7—International Congress on Analytical Chemistry. Kyoto, Japan. Contact: T. Fujinaga, Faculty of Sciences, University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan. Page 46 A, Jan. Apr. 9 to 14—163rd National American Chemical Society Meeting. Boston, Mass. Includes Analytical Division Sessions. Contact: W. Wayne Meinke, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. 20034. Page 41 A, Mar. Apr. 9 to 14—Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Atlantic City, N.J. Contact: Helena B. Lemp, FASEB, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Md. 20014 Apr. 10 to 14—Applications of Nuclear Activation Techniques in the Life Sciences. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. Contact: International Atomic Energy Agency, Karntrferring 11-13, A1011, Vienna, Austria. Page 33 A, Dec. Apr. 11 to 14—Optical Society of America National Meeting. New York, N.Y. Contact: J. W. Quinn, Optical Society of America, 2100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037. 202-293-1420 Apr. 21—Meeting on Diffraction Gratings. Imperial College, London SW7. Contact: The Institute of Physics, 47 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8QX, England Apr. 24 to 25—Second Annual Symposium on Mass Spectrometry. Du Pont Country Club, Wilmington, Del. Contact: T. R. Garrett, Du Pont Instruments, 1500 S. Shamrock Ave., Monrovia, Calif. 213-357-2111 Apr. 24 to 26—7th ISA Maintenance Management Instrumentation Symposium. William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa. Contact: R. P. Trauterman, Allegheny Ludlum St. Co., River Rd., Brackenridge, Pa. 15014 Apr. 24 to 26—Seventh Annual Meeting Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation. Las Vegas, Nev. Contact: AAMI, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Md. 20014. Page 40 A, June CIRCLE 7 3 O N READER SERVICE CARD
