INTRODUCTION an explosive harvest of solutions to profound and abstruse structural problems that have The title of this review is compelled more by involved the intensive and imaginative efforts an overabundance of subjects than by paucity, of a succession of dedicated scientists. With a state of affairs which reigns today throughout these, the name of RJ Anderson and his colall of the biological sciences. In the field of leagues is irrevocably associated. This group in mycobacterial lipids, the last decade hasseen one way or another delineated essentially all of