Andy Whiting of UMIST has asked me to correct my message about the "first" meeting on combichem for materials science. I am happy to do so. I was well aware that there was a meeting at UMIST in Manchester on this subject on Septmeber 18. I wish it had not been the same week as ChemInt98 or I were have certainly registered for it. It looked an excellent programme. I did not intend to misuse the word "first". (And if anyone else thinks that they organised a meeting on this topic *before* Septmeber 18, please don't tell me!) What I meant to say was that the Knowledge Foundation meeting in January is the first, full blown, *commercial* multi-day conference with obligatory California location, "distinguished faculty" , expensive proceedings etc. etc. And no doubt other conference organising companies will soon jump on the band wagon. But in one sense, this conference *is* a first. The Manchester meeting was a one-day event, organised by UMIST Continuing Professional Development Department, at an exceptionally reasonable price, and I have no doubt that it was an intellectually stimulating event. Is anyone producing any sort of report out of it? I would have liked to do so. Wendy -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy@warr.com http://www.warr.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)