In This Issue:

• A Question of Balance   Alan Dyer
• Dominion Astronomer Passes (C.S. Beals)
• Wanted: Good Astronomical Slides   John R. Percy
• Pay Due Respect
• Two Members of the Society Receive Public Recognition
• Nouvelles des Centres Québécois   Damien Lemay
• Stellar Spectroscopy – A Personal Approach   Clive Gibbons
• Simon Newcomb Award of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
• Nominations for RASC Officers, 1980-81
• Awards of the RASC for 1980–1981
• That Other Part of the Newsletter
• Comet Meier 1979i
• Twisted Straightening
• The Joys of Country Living   Jody Le Blanc
• Erratum: National Newsletter for August