COMMISSION 27 OF THE I.A.U.
               INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                            Number 1448

                                                      Konkoly Observatory
                                                      Budapest
                                                      1978 July 27


           COMMISSION 27 REPORT 1976-78

It is now high time to start preparations for the 
Commission 27 Report to be included in the forthcoming Volume of
the IAU Transactions. After collecting views, opinions, and 
suggestions from members of our Commission after consulting with
members of the Commission's Organizing Committee, I have prepared 
the following proposal.
   The Report will consist of a series of reviews covering
organizational problems and selected research areas. The Authors
will have freedom of choice between:
    A. conventional presentation, with an emphasis on 
completeness of the survey and references, or
    B. critical review, or an essay, with an emphasis on
the most important and prospective aspects and trends.
   The list of topics and Authors is given below. To ensure
the completeness of the Report and to meet the deadlines, I
should like to ask all active workers in the field to send 
immediately and directly to the relevant Co-Authors their reprints,
preprints, abstracts, or other information on current research.


                        J. SMAK, President
                        Commission 27 cf the IAU



             Commission 27 Report 1976-78


        Topic:                              Author:


General, meetings, catalogs,
books; organizations problems               J. Smak
Archives of unpublished pe
observations and related problems           M. Breger
General Catalogue of Variable
Stars                                       M.S. Frolov
Surveys                                     W. Wenzel
Red Variables                               M.W. Feast
Cepheids                                    R.S. Stobie
RR Lyrae Variables                          B. Szeidl
beta CMa Variables                          J. Rountree-Lesh
delta Sct and Dwarf Cepheids                M. Breger
Magnetic Variables and Related
Objects                                     K. Stepien
T Tau Variables and Related
Objects                                     G.T. Gahm
Flare Stars                                 P.F. Chugainov
Variable White Dwarfs                       E.L. Robinson
Novae at Outbursts                          E.R. Mustel and
                                            V.P. Arkhipova
Supernovae                                  G.A. Tammann
Theory of stellar pulsations                A.N. Cox
Accretion phenomena in
Variable Stars                              G.T. Bath