Cover: 'the Dream in the Seed' ­ a science/art oil on stretch canvas painted by Robert Pope especially for this issue of AFAR. Pope has dedicated the painting to'...the understanding of the natural laws associated with creative thought and the peaceful application of such knowledge for the benefit of all people'. Pope applies his own artistic interpretation to scientific ideas; thus freed from rigid scientific discipline, he describes the painting as follows: 'From a canopy of green chlorophyl molecules, sunlight is converted to chemical energy in the form of hexagonal sugars.The blue gasseous mist is oxygen released in the process and is entwined with Fibonacci-Pacioli lines to depict aesthetic programming in life. The golden mean symbol near a spiral nebula suggests that Da Vinci's use of Pacioli mathematics is related to a universal aesthetic enrichment program. 'Robert Pope's' biographical details appear in:Max Germaine, Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand, Lansdown Press, Sydney, 1979. Pope was also one of eight people covered by the ABC TV documentary 'The Scientists ­ Profiles in Discovery' (1979). (Photo by Austin Penney Photographics.)