JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY DECEMBER 1993 VOL. 8 61N Gordon F. Kirkbright Bursary Fund 1994 The fund was established in 1985 as a the Committee of the Association of first post-doctoral position) to visit a memorial to Gordon Kirkbright and British Spectroscopists and the ABS recognized scientific meeting or place his contributions to analytical spec- Trust; it aims to enable promising or learning. troscopy and to analytical science in young scientists of any nation (e.g. In 1993 bursaries were awarded general. The fund is administered by postgraduate students or those in their to Jonathan D. Howe Christopher62N JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY DECEMBER 1993 VOL. 8 D. Puxley and Alice E. Thornley. Jonathan Howe is working at Bristol for a PhD on resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization spectroscopy to detect gaseous free radicals.He visited the National Institute of Stan- dards and Technology in the USA for 5 weeks and presented a paper at the Ohio State Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy. Christopher Puxley is a PhD student in the Fluorine Group at Leicester he attended the Ninth meeting on Chemistry and Physics of Matrix-isolated Species in Hel- sinki Finland. Alice Thornley is a PhD student at the University of Durham she is a theoretical chemist calculating the spectra of Van der Waals molecules and visited the laboratory of Professor Roger Miller at the University of North Carolina USA. Applications are now invited for the award of the Gordon F. Kirkbright bursaries for 1994. Completed forms must be received not later than Febru- ary 28 1994. Full details and applica- tion forms can be obtained from Professor L.H. Sutcliffe Department of Chemistry University of Surrey Guildford Surrey UK GU2 SXH. Telephone 0483 300 800 ext. 9586; Fax 0483 300 803.