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		10 organizing a meeting (February, 1999) which will be dedicated to the A. P. Bystrov's centenary. He plans field work in 1999 in the South Timan, Ukhta Region. G. Kisselev participated in International conference "Problems of Sedimentary Geology" in St.Petersburg, November 1998, where he gave a report " A diversity of the Silurian cephalopods in the different Silurian sedimentary basins." S. Melnikov's monograph "Ordovician and Silurian conodonts of the Timan-Pechora region" (in Russian) is in press.He has also started to compile a data base of all kinds of geological information about the Timan-Pechora region. In future he will continue his program in cooperation with other specialist who have studied this region. Two papers have been written, one by him on the conodonts of Timan (Melnikov In press), and the other paper about Lower Devonian ostracods withA. Abushik and L. Shaifutdinova. T. Modzalevskaya reported in Warsaw the results of her studies (together with Dr. B. Wenzel from Erlangen, Germany) of biostratigraphy and isotopic composition of upper Silurian brachiopods from the Timan-Pechora Region (Modzalevskaya 1998). She also was a co-author of a talk about the reconstruction of the Palaeozoic sedimentary basins and palaeotectonic conditions in the modern Arctic shelves. She continues to study pentamerids (with M. Rubel, Estonia) from Timan, and Ordovician and Silurian brachiopods from Kotel'ny Island and Taimyr. She has been working on the biostratigraphy and biogeography of the Silurian and Lower Devonian brachiopods and ostracods and Silurian bryozoans from Novaya Zemlya. A manuscript has been submitted. S. Snigirevski S. defended in 1998 his Ph.D. dissertation"Late Devonian flora from Northern Timan". A. Yudina attended ECOS-VII in Italy, giving two talks and participating in the post-session field trip to the Southern Alps. A. Zhuravlev did field work in 1998 in the North Urals, Iz-Ya-Yu River, Lower Carboniferous, together with O. Kossovaya, D. Sobolev, and Ya. Vevel. Sweden: H. Blom completed a manuscript on microremains of vertebrates from the upper part of the Franklinian Basin, North Greenland (Blom and Peel, submitted). Studies on the Lower Silurian thelodonts from North Greenland continue. He attended the Warsaw meeting, and successfully defended his"Filosofie Licentiat" thesis (Swedish degree representing a half way Ph.D.) with the title "Vertebrate remains from the Upper Silurian- Lower Devonian of North Greenland" in May 1998. Plans for 1999 include studies on the taxonomic, biostratigraphic and palaeogeographic significance of the Devonian thelodont taxon Amaltheolepis, based on material from the Circum-Arctic region. U. Borgen has completed his monograph on osteolepiforms from East Greenland, and is now making revisions following review. J. Peel continues his diverse research program on the Palaeozoic stratigraphy of North Greenland. Ukraine: T. Nemirovskaya, the first IGCP 406 participant from Ukraine, joined the project in 1998 . She attended the conodont symposium (ECOS VII) in Italy and took part in the post-conference field-trip to Southern Alps. In Italy she presented papers on the origin of the conodont Gnathodus bilineatus(T. Nemirovskaya and D. Meischner), and on the evolution and stratigraphy of Moscovian (late Carboniferous) conodont faunas (T. Nemirovskaya, M.-F. Perret and A. Alekseev). She also attended the Warsaw meeting of IGCP 406 where she told about faunal changes close to the Bashkirian-Moscovian boundary in Europe and North America (Nemyrovskaya 1998). Detailed studies of the Moscovian in Donbas, Moscow Basin and North America are in progress. United Kingdom: The number of U.K. participants and persons expressing interest in the project continues to grow, thanks mainly to the work of S. Young, U.K. correspondent. There are now approximately 25 participants from the U.K. P. Ahlberg holds a NATO grant for comparing British and Baltic Old Red Sandstone faunas; the grant continues until January 1999. As part of this grant, he visited A. Ivanov in St. Petersburg in late September, taking a set of silastic peels of an undescribed ploudosteid arthrodire from the Brecon Beacons for Ivanov to study. Work is in progress on a paper describing a new basal tetrapod from the Gauja Formation of Latvia and Estonia (Ahlberg, Luksevics & Mark-Kurik, in prep.). Later in the autumn Per will begin writing up the