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With the praiseworthy intent of allowing enzymologists and polymer scientists to learn from each other, the SRC Enzyme Chemistry and Technology Committee organised a meeting on January 2 and 3 at Cambridge. In three sessions the meeting dealt with synthetic polymers, structural natural polymers and enzymes. The reports of the meeting which follow describe it from the point of view of, respectively, an enzymologist and a polymer scientist.