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outstanding contributions at a large number of national and international meetings, and continued a strong record of publication of scientific results and news articles.
Other significant benefits include provision of assistance for scientists including graduate students from countries with limited financial resources; sharing of samples and joint field work on geological sections for international, multidisciplinary studies; and intensive study of exceptional fossiliferous deposits (e.g. Devonian localities at 'MOTH' and Anderson River in the Northwest Territories of Canada; Silurian localities on Cornwallis Island in the Canadian Arctic; Devonian tetrapod-bearing sites in East Greenland) that will need future protection under national and international laws.

2.2 List of meetings with approximate attendance and number of countries

Lower-Middle Palaeozoic Events Across the Circum-Arctic
Jurmala (near Riga), Latvia, September 26-October 2, 1999
Joint meeting with the Baltic Stratigraphic Conference.
Workshop on Paleozoic Vertebrate Morphology.
Field Excursion to the Devonian of northeastern Latvia.
More than 100 researchers from 16 countries attended.

Representation by IGCP 406 at Other Meetings
* Palaeontology, Phylogeny, & Development, London, UK; numerous participants from IGCP 406.
* Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Denver, USA; M. Wilson and student C. Boettger attended.
* XLV All-Russian Palaeontological Society; six IGCP 406 members participated.
* Interdepartmental Stratigraphic Committee in the Northern Caucasus; V. Tsyganko attended.
* European Elasmobranch Association, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France; A. Ivanov participated.
* Geology of the Western Urals on the Boundary of the XXI Century, Perm, Russia; A. Antoshkina and T.
Beznosova partipated.
* Palaeontological Association meetings at Portsmouth, UK; 15 members of IGCP 406 attended.
* New Perspectives on the Old Red Sandstone, Cambridge, UK; several members made presentations.
* International Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Edinburgh, UK; at least
five members, including field trip leaders N. Trewin and R. Davidson.
* Canadian Paleontology Conference, Calgary; M. Wilson participated.
* Workshops in Ukhta and Syktyvkar, and field meeting in Subpolar Urals; 10 members participated.