Welcoming Address On Behalf of the Local Organising Committee

I am honoured and certainly delighted to have been appointed the privilege of welcoming you all on behalf of the local organising committee to the Fifteenth International Radiocarbon Conference. Why, I asked, had I been elected to follow on Baillie Adam's formal opening words on behalf of Glasgow's city fathers? Was it polite respect for my relatively venerable age, or perhaps even a cer- tain power of intimidation that comes with an increasingly impressive

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