The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) will be holding holding its annual meeting at the Missouri Botanical Garden, May 11-15 in St. Louis, Missouri. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the Association of Systematic Collections (ASC) annual meeting. The theme for the meeting is Collections Care and Collections Policies. Topics include the 1992 Madrid Symposium and World Congress Resolution, NIC's project on the conservation and preservation of natural science collections and ASC's Systematics Agenda 2000. SPNHC will also conduct a workshop on Risk Management. For more information, please contact Elizabeth Hathway, ASC 730 11th Street, NW, Second Floor, Washington D.C., 20001, phone (202) 347-2850, fax (202) 347-0072.