Photobiology meetings

178 The IPS has had a very positive impact on scientilic research in the country and had promoted interdisciplinary cooperation at national and international levels. The society celebrated its Silver Jubilee by holding a symposium on “Light and Lie” in Calcutta in 1989 where Dr. M. Pathak of Boston, U.S.A., was a very active participant. In continuation of the Silver Jubilee progranune, in February 1990, the Society organized a symposium on “Photophysiology and Photomedicine” with international participation. Dr. R. M. Tyrrell, Secretary-General of the AIP, Drs. J. Cadet, R. H. J. Davies, J. Wolfrum, Professors M. Shopova, G. N. H. Towers and many other participants made it a memorable event. The efforts of Dr. V. Jain in organizing this symposium was very commendable and appreciated. Another symposium on “Photochemistry, Laser Chemistry and Photobiology” was scheduled for January 1991, the third in the series of Silver Jubilee programme. We were looking forward to this session of fast kinetics initiated by photons in femtoseconds, which unfold multifaceted beauty of Nature as photobiological processes gradually manifest themselves. The Society now has four chapters in diierent parts of the country, and we hope for more to promote collaborative programmes for understanding photobiological phenomena. K. K. ROHATGI-MUKHERJEE, Secretary, Indian Photobiology Society, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700032, India.

PHOTOBIOLOGY

MEETINGS

Information on forthcoming meetings can be found in Newsletter No. 30, J. Photo&em. Photobid. B: Bid., 9 (3-4) (1991) 411-416.

ERRATUM Newsletter 27, J. Photo&em.

Photobiol. B: Biol., 8 (1991)

447-452.

In the article by Robert Scheuerlein “Photobiological Research in the Federal Republic of Germany”, p. 449, the headings Light reactions and Dark reactions should be read as subdivisions of the section on Photosynthesis.