Table of Contents

• QUANTUM STATES OF THE FMS by Philip S. Neuhoff 1–3
• TREASURER'S REPORT CY 2025 by Andrew D. Silver 4
• THE “CHILDREN’S” NEW CONDO by Conrad North 5–7
• THE NEW FLUORESCENT MINERAL DISPLAY AT THE YALE PEABODY MUSEUM by Harold Moritz 8
• ULTRAVIOLATION 2025 by Lauren Anderson 9–10
• 2025 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NORTHWEST CHAPTER OF THE FMS by Jennifer Moore, with Philip Neuhoff and Ryan Brown 11–14
• THE 2026 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE FLUORESCENT MINERAL SOCIETY by Philip S. Neuhoff 15–16
• TUCSON 2026 by Simone Conti, Howie Green, Bart Pickard, Mike Crawford, and Andrew Silver 17–29
• Thanks to our Patrons by — 30

QUANTUM STATES OF THE FMS

By Philip S. Neuhoff · pp. 1–3

Philip S. Neuhoff reviews the Fluorescent Mineral Society’s growing public reach through Facebook, Reddit, podcasts, online archives, and the Fluorescent Mineral DataBase. He urges members to contribute articles, website material, database records, and social-media answers. The column also emphasizes strengthening regional chapters and expanding in-person activities, including events in Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Idaho, Denver, the Northeast, and Europe.

TREASURER'S REPORT CY 2025

By Andrew D. Silver · p. 4

Andrew D. Silver reports the Society’s 2025 financial activity, including membership dues, donations, auctions, publication sales, operating costs, annual-meeting expenses, board expenses, and publication expenditures. The report states total receipts and expenses for the calendar year, gives the ending savings-account balance, and notes that settlement funds received by the Society are designated for education and outreach.

THE “CHILDREN’S” NEW CONDO

By Conrad North · pp. 5–7

Conrad North describes the expansion of the Western Museum of Mining and Industry’s fluorescent mineral exhibit in Colorado Springs. After helping identify museum holdings and selecting 105 additional specimens, he follows the fundraising, design, construction, lighting, cataloging, and installation of the enlarged display. The completed room uses multiple ultraviolet lighting arrangements, OP-3 panels, wall and wing cases, and museum staff expertise.

THE NEW FLUORESCENT MINERAL DISPLAY AT THE YALE PEABODY MUSEUM

By Harold Moritz · p. 8

Harold Moritz introduces the renovated fluorescent mineral display at the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, completed in April 2025. The exhibit includes common and rare mineral species from localities in North America and elsewhere, including donated material from Manuel Robbins and Mark Pospisil. Visitors can activate sequential short-, medium-, and long-wave ultraviolet illumination, followed by simultaneous ultraviolet exposure and demonstrations of phosphorescence.

ULTRAVIOLATION 2025

By Lauren Anderson · pp. 9–10

Lauren Anderson reports on the 35th annual Ultraviolation show held October 25, 2025. The single-day Pennsylvania event brought together 25 vendors and attendees from many regions for mineral sales, displays, lighting demonstrations, collecting conversation, and a Greenlandic-rock nickname contest. Alternating illuminated and dark periods allow visitors to evaluate specimens and equipment without improvised darkrooms, while vendors offer minerals, lights, flashlights, jewelry, cabochons, and spheres.

2025 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NORTHWEST CHAPTER OF THE FMS

By Jennifer Moore, with Philip Neuhoff and Ryan Brown · pp. 11–14

Jennifer Moore recounts the Northwest Chapter’s July 23–27, 2025 meeting near McCall, Idaho. Eight participants combined fellowship, an after-hours rock-shop visit, chapter business, presentations, an auction, and field trips near Riggins, Burgdorf, Ruby Meadows, and the Bob claim. Activities included collecting zeolites, garnets, serpentinites, corundum, sapphires, aquamarine, and fluorescent minerals, with a thunderstorm ending the final claim visit early.

THE 2026 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE FLUORESCENT MINERAL SOCIETY

By Philip S. Neuhoff · pp. 15–16

Philip S. Neuhoff describes the FMS annual meeting held January 31, 2026, at the Tucson Museum of Art. The weekend also included a nighttime rock swap and a Facebook Chapter coffee gathering. About fifty people attended in person and more than a dozen joined virtually. Mike Crawford presented research on infrared and ultraviolet mineral luminescence photography, followed by Society business, food, specimen sharing, and fellowship.

TUCSON 2026

By Simone Conti, Howie Green, Bart Pickard, Mike Crawford, and Andrew Silver · pp. 17–29

This illustrated Tucson 2026 feature presents mineral specimens photographed in visible light and under selected ultraviolet wavelengths. Examples include zektzerite from Tajikistan, watermelon calcite and chalcedony from Nebraska, fluorapatite, gypsum and halite, magnesite, danburite, fluorite, adamite, calcite, powellite, hydrozincite, hyalite, apatite, carpathite, selenite, and an alkaline-rock assemblage from Malawi. Several entries discuss localities, specimen dimensions, activators, emission colors, and spectral behavior.

Thanks to our Patrons

p. 30

This page acknowledges FMS patrons whose additional contributions support the Society’s website, UV Waves, and other activities. It lists patron names and membership numbers, including contributors involved in mineral collecting, ultraviolet equipment, specimen sales, and related services. The page also directs readers to the FMS website for patron information and requests that corrections or omissions be reported.