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All the Crystallographic News that's fit to print

[W. L. Duax]

This newsletter goes to 16,000 crystallographers in 39 countries. It should contain crystallographic news for all 39 of those countries. As you read it you may be wondering why your country or continent is under represented. We can't print the news unless we get it. If the US and the UK seem over represented this is in part because the ACA and the BCA produce quarterly Newsletters that provide a source of information on crystallography in the US and UK. We try to extract highlights from these and other newsletters that will be of interest to crystallographers everywhere. However, many national newsletters are not written in English and we are woefully deficient in our foreign language skills.

We invite all crystallographic newsletter editors to send condensed and/or translated versions of items they think most newsworthy to us for inclusion in this newsletter. We invite all National Crystallographic Associations to appoint one of their members to be a reporter to the IUCr Newsletter of national activities including election of officers, annual meeting announcements and reports, awards received by their members and general news of crystallography and crystallographers in their country. We also invite individual crystallographers throughout the world to send news items and articles about crystallographic meetings they organize or attend. The content of the article is of greater importance then the quality of the English writing since we will be editing the material. We also urge members of all of the commissions of the IUCr to submit articles containing commission plans, policies and projects so that the entire community is aware of your activities.

We want to express our appreciation to Fernando Lahoz for providing a summary of organizational aspects and recent activities of the Spanish Crystallographic Association that appears in this issue.

At the Seventeenth European Crystallographic Meeting the European Crystallographic Association held its first official election of officers:

  • President Carmelo Giacovazzo
  • Vice-President Joel Bernstein
  • Secretary Paul Beurskens
  • Treasurer: Sybolt Harkema
  • Additional Members: Frank H. Allen, Maria A. Carrondo, Peter Paufler

The organization of the ECA will almost certainly contribute to the continual growth and success of future ECM meetings and be a source of crystallographic news from Europe.

 William L. Duax, Editor