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I’d like to begin this survey of surveys and catalogues of galaxies with a story about Gérard de Vaucouleurs and myself. When I first went to work for him in the summer of 1965, I was the proud owner of a copy of the then-new Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies (RC1; 1964). I don’t often seek autographs for my books, but this was a special occasion and a special book, so I asked Gérard and Antoinette for their autographs. After signing the title page, Gérard began leafing through the catalogue and noticed some of my penciled “updates” in the B(0) column. Learning that these magnitudes had not (yet!) been reduced to the B(0) system, he scolded me for putting the wrong numbers in the catalogue. Properly chastized, I immediately wrote a short computer program to do the reduction, and spent the necessary time to get the correct data into the correct columns.

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    Harold G. Corwin Jr.

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    Harold G. Corwin Jr.

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    Lucette Bottinelli

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Corwin, H.G. (1989). Galaxy Catalogues and Surveys. In: Corwin, H.G., Bottinelli, L. (eds) The World of Galaxies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9356-6_1

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