1. About ‘reconnection’ in a collisionless plasma

   • R. Pellat

   OriginalPaper Pages: 359 - 364

2. Theories of tail structures

   • K. Schindler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 365 - 374

3. Several recent findings concerning the dynamics of the Earth's magnetotail

   • L. A. Frank
   • K. L. Ackerson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 375 - 392

4. Transient phenomena in the magnetotail and their relation to substorms

   • E. W. Hones Jr.

   OriginalPaper Pages: 393 - 410

5. Reconnection in the magnetotail

   • A. A. Galeev

   OriginalPaper Pages: 411 - 425

6. Structure of the magnetopause: Observations and implications for reconnection

   • D. H. Fairfield

   OriginalPaper Pages: 427 - 448

7. Effects of the interplanetary magnetic field on the auroral oval and plasmapause

   • J. L. Burch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 449 - 464

8. Heavy ions in the magnetosphere

   • Edward G. Shelley

   OriginalPaper Pages: 465 - 497

9. Expected charge states of energetic ions in the magnetosphere

   • Walther N. Spjeldvik

   OriginalPaper Pages: 499 - 538