supporting the establishment of a Working Group on numerical program libraries and describing the work of the Nottingam Algorithms Group (NAG).

Author asks to confirm the possibility of holding the 6th Meeting of WG 2.5 in Novosibirsk, to provide the dates and other meeting facilities prior to April 7, 1978.

The Organizing Committee Chairman Bo Einarsson asks to send him a list of possible names for the Working Group on Numerical Mathematical Software.

Dr. Bo Einarsson informs on the establishment of an Organizing Committee to prepare a Working Group on Numerical Mathematical Software. The members of the Committee are listed in a letter.

of the Working Conference "Problem Solving Environments for Scientific Computing" supposed for June 1985. (Doc. "Baden-9".)

The letter contains the Report from the Organizing Committee on the IFIP Working Group on Numerical Mathematical Software as well as the following attachments: 1)Letter of invitation; 2)Preliminary views on the proposed WG and activities; 3)Formal Proposal of March 1974; 4)Addresses of the committee members.

The invitation to participate in IFIP Working Conference on "Problems Solving Environments for Scientific Computing".

Dr.Bo Einarsson represents the Report from the Organizing Committee on the IFIP Working Group on Numerical Mathematical Software.

Prof. M.Paul suggests a mail ballot for the document submitted by WG 2.5 "Parameterisation of the Environment for Transportable Numerical Software". Handwritten note of A.Ershov "Replies yes by default".

of Working Group on Numerical Software (WG 2.5) to Technical Committee on Programming (TC-2).

to the WG 2.5 Report: "Parameterisation of the Environment for Transportable Numerical Software", edited by B.Ford.

to the WG 2.5 Report. Three Proposed Amendments to the Draft Proposed ANS Fortran Standard and the ANSI Technical Committee X3J3 reply (of July 18, 1977)

Chairman and Secretary of WG 2.5 send Proposals "Intrinsic Functions to Assist FORTRAN Portability for Numeric Computation" to ANS FORTRAN Standard Committee X3J3.

Proposal enclosed to ANS Standard Committee X3J3from WG 2.5: "Amendments to Draft Proposed ANS FORTRAN, Specifying the Double Precision Complex Data Type".

Four covering letters with Proposals "MAP Statement in FORTRAN to Assist in the Portability of Numerical Software" to ANS FORTRAN Standard Committee X3J3 from WG 2.5.

"Multi-machine Software Management - the NAG Approach".