32 FIFTH SAC CONFERENCE Anal. PYOC. Conferences and Courses Process Analytical Instrumentation School March 16-21, 1980, Coventry The continuing growth in the use and impor- tance of process analytical instruments in various sectors of industry has created a need for many personnel to acquire a background knowledge of the principles, capabilities and applications of such instruments. This infor- mation is not normally included in higher educa- tion courses and what definitive articles are available are scattered in the literature. The Institute of Measurement and Control, over the past years, has organised a number of unique residential courses on this topic, the sixth of which will be held from March 16 to 21, 1980, at the University of Warwick. The lecturers are acknowledged experts, having considerable industrial experience in their subjects. To ensure maximum benefit to participants course notes are provided and group projects are included that will give an opportunity to use the knowledge thus gained to provide answers to real, on-line, industrial analytical problems.Numbers on this course are limited to 50 and further details, including the programme and registration form, can be obtained from Mr. M. J. Yates, Institute of Measurement and Control, 20 Peel Street, London, W8 7PD. Postgraduate School on Aspects of Toxico- logical Testing Methods April 14-18, 1980, London The School will be held at Chelsea College, Manresa Road. The following aspects of test- ing for toxicity will be considered in the lec- tures. Pathological : Acute Toxicity ; Chronic Toxicity ; Autoradiography.Biochemical : TheJanuary, 1980 CONFERENCES Use of Isolated Hepatocytes ; Covalent Bonding to Cellular Macromolecules ; Changes in Urinary Enzymes and Plasma Enzymes as Toxicological Markers ; Altered Porphyrin Excretion ; Neuro- toxicity ; Dermatological Reactions ; Protein Binding ; Glutathione Depletion. Carcinogenic : Bacterial Mutagenicity Tests ; Endoplasmic Reticulum Degranulation ; Sisterchromatid Exchange. Regulatory : United Kingdom, EEC and United States Regulatory Requirements. There will be an opportunity, in the seminars, for members of the school to give short com- munications or poster presentations. Application forms can be obtained from Mr. R. E. Marshall, School Secretary, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1 Lambeth High Street, London, SE1 7JN.Meetings and Courses on Microscopy The 1980 programme of the Royal Microscopical Society contains the following events of interest to analysts. April 13-18, Course on Principles of Electron Microscopy (Leeds) ; April 13-18, Course on Specialised Transmission Electron Microscopy (Leeds) ; April 15-17, Meeting on Microscopy in Ceramics (Leeds) ; April 16, 4th Annual Electron Microscopy Meeting (Leeds) ; July 21-25, Course on Photomicrography (Uxbridge) ; July 21-25, Course on Polarised Light Microscopy (Uxbridge) ; September 15-19, Course on Fluorescence Microscopy (Oxford) ; and September 22-26, Course on Specialised Scanning Electron Microscopy for Biologists and AND COURSES 33 Materials Scientists (Cambridge).The pro- gramme also contains advance notice of a course to be run in 1981, on January 5-8, on X-ray Microanalysis of Thin Films (Manchester) . For further details contact The Administra- tor, Royal Microscopical Society, 37/38 St. Clements, Oxford, OX4 1AJ. Micro 80 August 18-22, 1980, Brighton This conference, which will take place a t the Metropole Hotel, Kings Road, is an international conference on microscopy together with an international exhibition on modern microscopes and ancillary equipment. It is to be organised by the Royal Microscopical Society. The sessions will cover SEM Instrumentation and Analysis, SEM Applications and Developments (Materials), Microanalytical Methods for SEM, STEM, etc., Materials STEM: Convergent Beam and Micro-diffraction Techniques, SEM Bio- logical and Medical Preparation and Ancillary Techniques, SEM Biological and Medical Diag- nostic and Research Applications, Polymers and Fibres, Microscopy of Viruses and Resin Embedding in Microscopy. Papers are invited for all sessions and abstracts should be submitted by April 15, 1980, to The Administrator, Royal Microscopy Society, 37/38 St. Clements, Oxford, OX4 1A J . Further information on the conference is also available from this address.