There are still a few places available for the UKIC Furniture Section Conference: Pest Attack and Pest Control in Organic Materials Museum of London, 18 November 1996 The conference will explore the sources, control and eradication of pest attack in organic materials pertaining to furniture. It will address the application of control and eradication techniques available to the conservation profession. Toxic eradication methods will be covered briefly, but emphasis will be given to non-toxic methods that include the use of high and low temperatures and reduced oxygen environments. 9.00 Registration and Coffee 9.30 Introduction 9.45 David Pinniger (Consultant Entomologist) - Identification of insect pests and damage 10.15 David Horden (Private Restorer) - The particular problems encountered in furniture and architectural woodwork 10.45 Roy Thomson (The Leather Conservation Centre) - The effects of pest attack on leather 11.15 Valerie Blyth (Senior Textile Conservator, Victoria and Albert Museum) - Textile pest management at the V&A 11.45 - 12.15 Questions 12.30 Lunch 2.00 Robert Child (Head of Conservation, National Museums and Galleries of Wales) - Detection, monitoring and control 2.30 Mark Nicholson (Thermo Lignum) - Anoxic atmospheres in conjunction with heat/humidity Dr Werner Rotberg (Thermo Lignum) - The Thermo Lignum controlled heating/constant humidity method 3.15 Tea 3.45 Nick Umney (Assistant Head of Furniture Conservation, Victoria and Albert Museum) An investigation into the use of low oxygen atmosphere for insect pest control 4.15 Helen Lloyd (The Housekeeper, The National Trust) Good Housekeeping - Prevention is Better than Cure? 4.45 - 5.30 Forum There will also be a poster session and "trade fair". Cost: 35.00 (Student Rate 25.00) Includes lectures, postprints, "trade fair" and refreshments (morning coffee, buffet lunch and afternoon tea) To book please phone to: Lyndsay Piper 01993 878593 If you cannot attend the conference but are interested in buying the postprints or contributing a paper on your own 'pest experince', please E-mail or snail mail: Dominique A. Rogers Ganapati Kumari, Pin Mill, Ipswich, IP9 1JW. UK E-mail: [log in to unmask] -- Dominique Rogers [log in to unmask] Ganapati Kumari, Pinmill, Ipswich, IP9 1JW, UK.