Dear Bill:
It was a pleasure to receive the current issue (Vol. 7, No. 1)
of the IUCr Newsletter. I was particularly pleased to see the
item on Crystallographic Nomenclature.
The coverage of last year's meetings of IUCr affiliates was surely
a worthy and interesting use of your limited space. Future meeting
reports such as these would be more useful to many readers if
each were accompanied by access to a website with detailed information.
Although several URL's are indeed printed in this issue's reports,
the information could be enhanced. A first step would be to provide
all available abstracts of papers presented on the website, with
the appropriate URL given in the meeting report; as meeting organizers
increasingly require abstracts to be submitted electronically,
this will become easy to do. A second step would be for the organizers
to post an expanded version of the report submitted to the Newsletter,
since the limitations of printed space will not apply. No doubt
there are many further steps that should be considered!
Sidney C. Abrahams, Southern Oregon U.
Dear Sidney,
Thanks for your comments and suggestions. When websites containing
meeting abstracts are available, we will cite them in future
reports. Less than half the session chairs at the AsCA, ACA,
or ECM meetings provide reports. Some of the reports were abbreviated
in the newsletter and in the future we will try to post the originals
on the Newsletter web site and note that.
Bill
Dear Bill,
It was very kind of you to send me the color picture and the
issue of the IUCr Newsletter. I was touched by the fact that
the memorial for Ken was held. You may be interested to know
that I have been in touch with the chief archivist at UCLA and
I'm in the process of collecting Ken's papers to be kept at the
University. Also, the large lecture hall where Ken gave many
classes has been named with a bronze plaque and title above the
large double doors - The Kenneth N. Trueblood Lecture Hall.
Jean Trueblood, Los Angeles, CA
Dear Jean,
I am sure that many crystallographers around the world will be
pleased to know of UCLA's plans to honor Ken.
Bill
Dear Bill,
I always appreciate your excellent photographs which appear in
the IUCr's prestigious organ. I happened to notice one in the
ECM-18 report where the participants were described as being
'in Phase and ready for Transition'. This is true to the extent
that our minds were in phase with the science and, poised for
your photograph, we were ready for synchronous transition to
lunch. Incidentally, the caption strongly implies an association
with the microsymposium on Phase Transitions when, in fact, we
were at the parallel session on Neutron Scattering. Am I still
coherent?
Jon Cooper, U. of Southampton
