The second “New Perspectives in Neutron and Muon Science” meeting was held at Cosener's House in Abingdon from September 23–24, 1998. The objective of this meeting, organized by the Neutron Scattering Group of the Institute of Physics and The Royal Society of Chemistry, and co'sponsored by ISIS and EPSRC, was to provide Ph.D. students and young postdoctoral researchers with an opportunity to present their work in an informal atmosphere. This year, the meeting was divided into four sessions entitled “Structure, Including Surfaces and Interfaces,” “Excitations and Vibrations,” “Large Scale Structures,” and “Disordered Materials and Muons.” Three keynote lectures by Paul Attfield (Cambridge), Andrew Boothroyd (Oxford), and Colin Bain (Oxford) provided an excellent overview of the current state of neutron science. Fifteen contributed talks were presented, all of a uniformly high standard, covering many aspects of neutron scattering and muon spectrosCOPY.