Editorial: The Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference—A Tradition of over Thirty Years

Full details of our society and an archive of past conferences are available on the web site: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/anzsms

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Morrison J. Org. Mass Spectrom. 26, 183 (1991).

For an overview of Professor Morrison's work, see pages vi –xi in the introduction to his 75^th Birthday honour issue: Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 194(2/3) (Ed by Traeger J.C. ) (2000).

Details of ANZSMS19 are found at: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/anzsms/Conferences/ANZSMS19/ANZSMS19.html

Shaik S. de Visser S.P. Ogliaro F. Schwarz H. and Schröder D. Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 6, 556 (2002).

Hayes J.M. , Rev. Mineral Geochem. 43, 225 (2001).

McLafferty F.W. Horn D.M. Breuker K. Ge Y. Lewis M.A. Cerda B. Zubarev R.A. and Carpenter B.K. , J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 12, 245 (2001).

Stewart Walker has since informed me that the Ancient Greeks used goose tongues, while it was the Medieval Italians who used crocodile semen. See: Jarrow J.P. Kloner R.A. and Holmes A.M. , Viagra: How the miracle drug happened & what can it do for you. M. Evans and Company Inc., New York, USA, p. 4 (1998).