Part 1 Structural and physicochemical aspects of chemosensory and related systems: comparative aspects of vertebrate taste cell microvillar structures, K. Reutter; on the development of taste buds of the human fetal tongue, M. Witt et al; the role of serotonin as a neuromodulator in vertebrate taste buds, S.D. Roper; morphology of the vomeronasal organ in two South American monkeys ("Saguinus labiatus" and "Cebuella pygmaea", Callitrichidae) - histology and lectin histochemistry, C.S. Evans and E.F. Grigorieva; microvillous and ciliated receptor cells in the olfactory epithelium of the Australian lungfish, "Neoceratodus forsteri" (Krefft 1870), A. Hansen et al. Part 2 Odours and pheromones - their impact on development and social interactions in animals: olfactory biology, social behaviour and ecophysiology - an integrated marsupial study, D.M. Stoddart; seasonal, sexual and dietary induced variations in the sternal scent secretion in the Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), M. Salamon; on the nature and action of the rabbit nipple-search pheromone - a review, R. Hudson and H. Distel; lambs' individual odour signatures - mosaic hypothesis, R.H. Porter et al; amniotic fluid odour in neonatal adaptation - a summary of recent research in ammals, B. Schaal et al. Part 3 Olfactory sensitivity, learning, aversion and memory formation: induced olfactory sensitivity in rodents - a general phenomenon, V.V. Voznessenskaya et al; olfaction in male mice after gonadectomy, V.T. Troitskaya et al; olfactory deficit induced by the murine staggerer mutation - behavioural data, C. Baudoin et al; vomeronasal organ removal eliminates odour preference in bank voles, (Clethrionomys glareolus), M. Kruczek; methodological questions in the study of individual conspecifics, H.M. Schellinck and R.E. Brown. Part 4 Immunology, odours and behaviour in humans: regulation of soluble MHC class 1 molecules, N. Zavazava et al; MHC-associated urinary chemosignals in mice, F. Eggert et al; influence of the menstrual cycle on the excretion of soluble MHC molecules in humans, B. Wobst et al; MHC-molecules and urine odour formation, D. Luszyk et al; chemical analysis of urinary chemosignals in humans, H.J. Bestmann et al. Part 5 Supplement: role of excess thyroxin and growth hormone in postnatal increase of surface area and receptor neuron number in the olfactory epithelium of growing rats, E. Meisami et al.