PRIMARY PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS Report on a Conference held at Argonne National Laboratory, November 1971

In conclusion, the conference was judged to be extremely useful for the 230 persons who attended, and all departed with an optimistic enthusiasm about the certainty of progress in this field over the next 5 to 10 years. A statistic that perhaps represents a new record and should be shared to underscore the significance of the meeting to researchers in this area of photosynthesis is that out of 59 scheduled speakers all were in attendance and only one had to be replaced because of a commitment to take part in ceremonies for the 150th anniversary of a famous university in the East. From our experience with the form of the meeting, we feel that the open attendance but limited subject concept is a highly desirable meeting form and should be used for most scientific meetings.