CHAIRMAN'S REPORT
	by Vincenzo Balzani	1
OBITUARIES
	Egbert Havinga, 1909 - 1988
	by J. Cornelisse and H.J.C. Jacobs	3
	Oskar E. Polansky, 1919 - 1989
	by Johannes Leitich and Franz Mark	9
APPLIED PHOTOPHYSICS
	An Illustrated History of Edinburgh Instruments
	by Richard B. Dennis	11
PHOTOCHEMISTRY IN VIENNA
	Research on Radiation- and Photochemistry
	by Nikola Getoff	19
IUPAC COMMISSION ON PHOTOCHEMISTRY (III.3)
	Report (Bologna, 1988)
	by Silvia E. Braslavsky	29
CONFERENCE REPORTS
	Soviet Conference on Electron and Proton Transfer Photoprocesses, Moscow, USSR,May 16-19, 1988
	by Michael C. Kuzmin	31
	Photoacoustic, Photothermal, and Photochemical Processes in Gases, at Surfaces and inThin Films. Report on the 49th WEH Seminar Bad Honnef, FRG, November 21-23, 1988
	by Peter Hess	37
EPA NEWS
	The Big News: EPA, IAPS, and JPA have Signed an Agreement with ASP and Pergamon to Launch Part 2 (Photochem.) of Photochem. Photobiol.	41
	* Important Note to All Local Treasurers.	42
	* Guidelines for Contributing to the New Journal.
	by Henri Bouas-Laurent	43
PERSONALIA		43
BOOK REVIEWS
	Recommended Reading. Yecheskel Wolman: Chemical Information, a Practical Guide to Utilization
	by Werner E. Klotzbücher	44
	A New Field of Photochemistry. Vincenzo Balzani, ed.: Supramolecular Photochemistry
	by Giorgio Orlandi	46
PUBLICATIONS
	New Books on Photochemistry and Relatrd Subjects
	by Dorothea Seidel	48
	Abstracts of Theses in Photochemistry	50
UPCOMING MEETINGS
	Announcements	58
	Calendar	68
NEW MEMBERS		75