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Article Contents

TITLE PAGE

1.INTRODUCTION

2.THE DISTRIBUTION OF CLUSTERS

2.1.Early days

2.2.Surveys and catalogues

2.3.Superclusters and voids

2.4.Clusters and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe

3.THE CLUSTER COMPONENTS

3.1.The morphology-density relation

3.2.Luminosity segregation

3.3.Kinematical segregation

3.4.Star formation in cluster galaxies

3.5.Density and velocity dispersion profiles

3.6.The hot IC gas

3.7.Radio components

4.STRUCTURE

4.1.Subclustering

4.2.Mass

4.3.Luminosity

4.4.On the nature of the dark matter in clusters

5.EVOLUTION

5.1.The formation and evolution of galaxy clustering

5.2.The evolution of galaxies in clusters

5.3.The evolution of the IC gas

5.4.Cooling flows and the evolution of cD galaxies

6.CONCLUSIONS

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