In This Issue:

• The Simon Newcomb Award
• 1979 General Assembly
• Nominations for RASC Officers 1979–1980
• Report on the Temiskaming Astronomical Society   Peter R. Ryback
• Variable Star Observing Part II   C.E. Spratt
• Perseid Meteor Shower   Patricia Berezowski
• Nouvelles des Centres Québécois   Damien Lemay
• Nouveaux instruments a l'Observatoire du college de Levis
• The NNL Catches Up
• NNL Index for the Years 1970-1978
• In the Pages of the JOURNAL
• A Word of Warning!
• Correction to the 1979 OBSERVER’S HANDBOOK
• Stellafane 1978   Cathy Hall