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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume was planned at a meeting held on April 12, 1997, in Pasadena, California.

(Extracted from the preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Contents.

-Adventures in Cosmogony. A.G.W. Cameron.
-A Critical Review of Galactic Dynamos. Russell M. Kulsrud.
-Frequency Allocation: The First Forty Years. Brian Robinson.
-Reference Frames in Astronomy. K.J. Johnston & Chr. de Vegt.
-Probing the Universe with Weak Lensing. Yannick Mellier.
-The HR Diagram and the Galactic Distance Scale After Hipparcos. I. Neill Reid.
-Nucleosynthesis in Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars: Relevance for Galactic Enrichment and Solar System Formation. M. Busso, R. Gallino & G.J. Wasserburg.
-Physical Conditions in Regions of Star Formation. Neal J. Evans II.
-High-Energy Processes in Young Stellar Objects. Eric D. Feigelson & Thierry Montmerle.
-Sources of Relativistic Jets in the Galaxy. I.F. Mirabel & L.F. Rodríguez.
-The First 50 Years at Palomar: 1949-1999: The Early Years of Stellar Evolution, Cosmology, and High-Energy Astrophysics. Allan Sandage.
-Elemental Abundaces in Quasistellar Objects: Star Formation and Galactic Nuclear Evolution at High Redshifts. Fred Hamannn & Gary Ferland.
-Origin and Evolution of the Natural Satellites. S.J. Peale.
-Far-Ultraviolet Radiation from Elliptical Galaxies. Robert W. O'Connell.

-Indexes.