1. Editorial

   • Cyril Ponnamperuma

   EditorialNotes Pages: 311 - 311

2. The organic analysis and carbon chemistry of lunar samples: Their significance for exobiology

   • Sherwood Chang
   • Richard S. Young

   Session I. Introduction Pages: 315 - 319

3. An evaluation of pyrolytic techniques with regard to the Apollo 11, 12 and 14 lunar samples analyses

   • Bartholomew Nagy
   • M. A. Jabbar Mohammed
   • Vincent E. Modzeleski

   Session II. Review of Methods Pages: 323 - 329

4. Review of methods used in lunar organic analysis: Extraction and hydrolysis techniques

   • Keith A. Kvenvolden

   Session II. Review of Methods Pages: 330 - 341

5. Gas-liquid chromatography in lunar organic analysis

   • Charles W. Gehrke

   Session II. Review of Methods Pages: 342 - 353

6. Ion-exchange chromatography in lunar organic analysis

   • P. E. Hare

   Session II. Review of Methods Pages: 354 - 359

7. Fluorescence spectroscopy

   • Joon H. Rho

   Session II. Review of Methods Pages: 360 - 373

8. Search for biogenic structures and viable organisms in lunar samples: A review

   • Vance I. Oyama

   Session III. Survey Pages: 377 - 382

9. Distribution and isotopic abundance of biogenic elements in lunar samples

   • I. R. Kaplan

   Session III. Survey Pages: 383 - 403

10. Compounds of the organogenic elements in Apollo 11 and 12 lunar samples: A review

    • Everett K. Gibson Jr.
    • Carleton B. Moore

    Session III. Survey Pages: 404 - 414

11. Analyses of the returned lunar surface fines for porphyrins

    • J. H. Rho
    • A. J. Bauman
    • J. Bonner

    Session III. Survey Pages: 415 - 418

12. A quest for porphyrins in lunar soil: Samples from Apollo 11, 12 and 14

    • G. W. Hodgson
    • K. Kvenvolden
    • C. Ponnamperuma

    Session III. Survey Pages: 419 - 424

13. Amino acid precursors in lunar samples

    • Sidney W. Fox
    • Kaoru Harada
    • P. E. Hare

    Session III. Survey Pages: 425 - 431

14. Problems in the search for amino acids in lunar fines

    • Paul B. Hamilton
    • Bartholomew Nagy

    Session III. Survey Pages: 432 - 438

15. Research for amino acids in lunar samples

    • Charles W. Gehrke
    • Robert W. Zumwalt
    • Cyril Ponnamperuma

    Session III. Survey Pages: 439 - 449

16. Aromatic and heteroatom-containing organic compounds in the lunar samples

    • Robert C. Murphy

    Session III. Survey Pages: 450 - 454

17. Terrestrial contamination in Apollo lunar samples

    • D. A. Flory
    • B. R. Simoneit

    Session IV. Origin Pages: 457 - 468

18. In situ synthesis during organic analysis of lunar samples

    • K. Biemann

    Session IV. Origin Pages: 469 - 473

19. Extralunar sources for carbon on the moon

    • J. M. Hayes

    Session IV. Origin Pages: 474 - 483

20. The search for indigenous lunar organic matter

    • Carl Sagan

    Session IV. Origin Pages: 484 - 489

21. Lunar organic analysis: Implications for chemical evolution

    • Cyril Ponnamperuma

    Session V. Significance Pages: 493 - 496

22. Lunar carbon chemistry: Relations to and implications for terrestrial organic geochemistry

    • G. Eglinton
    • J. R. Maxwell
    • C. T. Pillinger

    Session V. Significance Pages: 497 - 506

23. Extraterrestrial organic analysis

    • J. Oró

    Session V. Significance Pages: 507 - 550

24. Study of carbon compounds in Apollo 12 and 14 lunar samples

    • P. T. Holland
    • B. R. Simoneit
    • A. L. Burlingame

    Session V. Significance Pages: 551 - 561

25. International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life

    Notice Pages: 562 - 562