Dr Boss stated that he hoped to publish the first two volumes of the General Catalogue by the middle of the next year and the complete catalogue of four volumes by the end of 1936. A 5th volume containing the introduction will be published later.

Dr Jackson reported that Prof. Kopff would postpone the choice of the 3000 fundamental stars for photography till after the publication of Boss’s G.C.

Dr Gerasimoviç reported that the fundamental stars of magnitudes 7m.5—8m.5 which have been selected by Dneprovski for observation at Pulkovo and Nikolayev were stars of the M giant type.