The R. Harlow Foundation for Disabused Crystallographers will, as usual, be presenting a check for $200 at the St. Paul ACA Meeting this summer for the best example of how an ORTEP drawing was used to spot and resolve a "problem" structure. Any published structure in a refereed journal is eligible for submission, but the submitter must clearly demonstrate the manner in which ORTEP (or more generally, any thermal-ellipsoid plotting program) was used to indicate that the structure as published was incorrect and must provide an ORTEP of the "corrected" structure. Structure determinations where the ORTEP drawing failed to indicate a "problem" structure are also eligible; these too are educational. Entries should be addressed to the Foundation at 7 Shull Dr., Newark, DE, 19711, USA. You do not have to be present at the St. Paul Meeting to win.

I would also like to point out to the crystallographic community two other Foundation initiatives, the Hydrogen Challenge and the Low-temp. Prize. Details of these awards can be found under the ACA Service SIG web page at http://www.pitt.edu/~geib/aca.html. In addition, I am looking for examples of mis-printed stereo ORTEP's. i.e. stereo pairs reversed, same image twice (no stereo effect), etc. For entries in this category, I will send you a small token of my appreciation.

-R. Harlow