AbstractThe News and Events section is designed to provide readers with a comprehensive and up‐to‐the‐minute current awareness service. It contains information on new instruments and equipment, changes in personel, etc. Further information concerning any item in these pages can be obtained by circling the relevant number on the reader service card. Any contributions which may be of interest to this section should be submitted to either the News and Events Editor — Colin Dann — at the publisher's London Office, or to any Region