to the letter to ARAP board members. M.Halpern describes the possibilities of a major improvement of ARAP sales and prestige, such as new title, free copies to influential people, additional editors in other countries.

Author enclosed a detailed report on the d'Imperio paper for ARAP (Annual Review in Automatic Programming).

Author is enclosing a copy of a paper by G.F.Coulouris.

This letter is addressed to all members of Annual Review Board. Chris. Shaw asks to review Petr Partyk's paper and to send any comments to him.

C.Shaw sends to all the members of the Editorial Board a copy of the paper by Prof. Samuel, which was accepted for publication as explained in the letter of July 27, 1967.

A paper on typographic conventions for describing programming languages is enclosed. The author looks forward to seeing A.Ershov during his visit to California.

The letter is addressed to all the members of the Editorial Board of the Annual Review. The copy of a paper by P.J.Brown submitted for publication in Volume 6 is sent.

The author sends his paper for a publication in Annual Review, asks to duplicate it.

The author sends to all the editors a copy of the first set of page proofs for Volume 5, the other sets will be along shortly. Remarks are listed.

The author asks all the editors about publishing Lord Bowden's Richard Goodman Memorial Lecture (enclosed).

The author encloses copies of two papers submitted for publication in the ARAP.

on the Editorial Board of "Annual Review" in 1964. Professor Andrei P. Ershov was a member of this Editorial Board.

Christopher J. Shaw sends to A.Ershov a copy of another paper for publication in the revived Annual Review. He describes the major considerations of the publishability of a paper. The results of a review should be one of four recommendations described as well.

Reply to the letter of January, 31. Author agrees to be a member of the editors, expresses his view on Japanese abstracts and gives a brief description of his background.

Reply to the letter of February, 18. To keep N.Inada informed of the progress, the author will be sending copies of a correspondence and papers relating to the Annual Review. The next letter to A.Ershov is enclosed.

C.Shaw suggests to all members of Editorial Board to discuss an important policy question regarding publication of previously published material.

Author constructively criticizes Mr.Bemer's article which is "for the most part devoted to the political history of ALGOL in the USA rather than the scientific history of ALGOL in the computational world" as well as expresses his opinion about papers of Brown and Sanderson.

Author gives detailed comments on the Bob Bemer's article.

Author briefly recenses the R.Bemer's article "A history of ALGOL".

Reply to the letter of 24 April. Authors ask to extend deadline untill August 1. A size of the paper is about 50 pages.