Table of Contents

New Results on the Distance Scale and the Hubble Constant.- The Magellanic Clouds and the Ditance Scale.- Main Sequence Fitting and the Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud.- Recent CCD Observations of Cepheids in Nearby Galaxies: A Progress Report.- Distances Using A Supergiant Stars.- An Infrared Calibration of the Cepheid Distance Scale.- RR Lyrae Stars in the Halo of M31 — A Preliminary Report.- Two Stepping Stones to the Hubble Constant.- Physical Models of Supernovae and the Distance Scale.- Calibration of the Infrared Tully-Fisher Relation and the Global Value of the Hubble Constant.- Distances from HI Observations of Nearby Groups and Clusters.- 21cm Line Widths and Distances of Spiral Galaxies.- Malmquist Bias and Virgocentric Model in Tully-Fisher Relation.- The Luminosity Index as a Distance Indicator and the Structure of the Virgo Cluster.- Infrared Colour-Luminosity Relations for Field Galaxies.- Minimizing the Scatter in the Tully-Fisher Relation.- I versus (B-I) Color-Magnitude Relation for Galaxies and I-Band Distances.- Photometry of Galaxies and the Local Peculiar Motion.- The Motion of the Sun and the Local Group and the Velocity Dispersion of “Field” Galaxies.- The Motion of the Local Group relative to the Nearest Clusters of Galaxies.- Distances and Motions of 2000 Galaxies in the Pisces-Perseus Supercluster.- Elliptical Galaxies and Non-Uniformities in the Hubble Flow.- Large-Scale Anisotropy in the Hubble Flow.- An Improved Distance Indicator for Elliptical Galaxies.- A Quadrupolar Component in the Velocity Field of the Local Supercluster.- Is the Criticism of the Virgocentric Flow Model Justified?.- Anisotropy of the Galaxies Detected by IRAS.- The Local Gravitational Field.- Mass Segregation, HI Deficiency and Dwarf Irregular Galaxies inthe Virgo Cluster.- Effects of Mass Segregation in Rotating Clusters of Galaxies.- Measurements of the Cosmic Background Radiation.- On the Measure of Cosmological Times.- Ages from Nuclear Cosmochronology.- Constraints on the Ages of Distant Giant Elliptical Radio Galaxies.- Extragalactic Gas at High Redshift: A Chronograph of Nonlinear Departures from Hubble Flow.- MicrowaVe and X-ray Constraints on Local Large-Scale Overdensities.- Supercluster Infall Models.- Virgo Infall and the Mass Density of the Universe.- A Determination of ? from the Dynamics of the Local Supercluster.- The Dynamics of Superclusters and ?0.- The Distribution of Galaxies versus Dark Matter.- Peculiar Velocities and Galaxy Formation.- Large Scale Structure in Universes Dominated by Cold Dark Matter.- Dark Matter, Cosmic Strings, and Large Scale Structure.- Clustering in Real Space vs. Redshift Space.- Cosmological Shells and Blast Waves.- More on Structure Involving 1018M?.- Galaxy Distances and Deviations from the Hubble Flow; Summary Remarks.- Galaxy Surface Brightness and Clustering: A Test for Biased Galaxy Formation Scenarios?.