1. Publisher's announcement

   Announcement Pages: 159 - 159

2. Comet Halley — A good omen!

   • James P. Ferris

   Announcement Pages: 161 - 163

3. Condensation of oligoglycines with trimeta- and tetrametaphosphate in aqueous solutions

   • Junpei Yamanaka
   • Katsuhiko Inomata
   • Yukio Yamagata

   OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 178

4. Construction of protocellular structures under simulated primitive earth conditions

   • Hiroshi Yanagawa
   • Yoko Ogawa
   • Masahiko Ito

   OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 207

5. Primeval procreative comet pond

   • Benton C. Clark

   OriginalPaper Pages: 209 - 238

6. Laboratory investigations of mars: Chemical and spectroscopic characteristics of a suite of clays as Mars Soil Analogs

   • Amos Banin
   • Glenn C. Carle
   • Thomas W. Scattergood

   OriginalPaper Pages: 239 - 265

7. Chemical evolution of peroxidase — amino acid pentacyanoferrate (II) complexes as model

   • Kamaluddin
   • Mala Nath
   • Sushama W. Deopujari

   OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 280

8. The chemical logic of a minimum protocell

   • Harold J. Morowitz
   • Bettina Heinz
   • David W. Deamer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 287

9. Genetic information could be integrated extrinsically for simplest life forms

   • Gordon Allen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 289 - 298

10. The relationship between RNA catalytic processes

    • Robert Cedergren
    • B. Franz Lang
    • Denis Gravel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 299 - 305

11. Book review

    • Franklin M. Harold

    BookReview Pages: 307 - 308