Thisindexcovers allitems -papers, correspondence, reviews, etc. - that appeared inthis periodical during 1976, anditems fromprior years thatwere commented uponorcorrected in1976. Theindex isdivided intoanAuthor Index andaSubject Index, botharranged alphabetically. TheAuthor Index contains theprimary entry foreachitem; this entry islisted underthenameofthefirst author andincludes coauthor names, title, location of theitem, andnotice ofcorrections andcommentsifany.Cross-references are given fromeachcoauthor nametothenameofthecorresponding first author. Thelocation oftheitemisspecified bythejournal name(abbreviated), year, month,inclusive pages, andmicrofiche code.[Themicrofiche code, given in parentheses following theinclusive pages, consists offourcharacters tobe interpreted asfollows: thefirst character identifies themicrofiche numberwithin thesetoffiches fortheissue; thesecond character identifies therowinwhichthe fir,st frameoftheparticular item islocated; andthelast twocharacters designate theposition ofthatframewithin therow.] TheSubject Index contains several entries foreachitem, eachconsisting ofa subject heading, modifying phrase(s), first author's name,andlocation ofthe item. Forinformation oncoauthors, title, commentsandcorrections ifany,etc., it isnecessary torefer totheAuthor Index. Somegeneric subject headings areused inthisindexinaddition totheusualtechnical headings, e.g., Books,(books reviewed inthis periodical), Bibliographies (both papers thatarebibliographies andanyotherpapers whichcontain morethan50references), Conferences (technical meetings a substantial numberofwhoseabstracts orpapers have appeared inthis periodical), andSpecial Issues (issues ofthis periodical devoted primarily toa specific subject). TheSubject Indexincludes subject crossreferences asrequired bythesubject matter. AUTHOR INDEX