* See the ‘Important Prospect: “Session of a Special Character” of the UNEP Governing Council in May 1982’ by Dr Mostafa K. Tolba, published on page 334 of this issue.—Ed.

† We may add that we ourselves plan to stress the importance and prospects of UNEP with a Guest Editorial by its Executive Director, a major survey paper by three of its most eminent advisers, a detailed account of the Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS) as an example of one of its main activities, and various other pertinent items, in our Spring issue of 1982. We are, however, dismayed to note the shortage of funding presaged by the Sierra Club International Earthcare Center's comment published on page 306 of this issue when, surely, massive support for UNEP should be of very high priority.—Ed.