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Article Contents

ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION

2.COLOR BIMODALITY: GLOBULAR CLUSTER SUBPOPULATIONS

2.1.Scenarios for Bimodality

3.GLOBAL PROPERTIES

3.1.Specific Frequency

3.2.Radial and Azimuthal Distributions

3.3.Variations with Galaxy Morphology

4.SPECTROSCOPY

4.1.Metallicities and Ages

4.2.[/Fe]

4.3.Abundance Anomalies

5.NEAR-IR IMAGING

6.GLOBULAR CLUSTER-FIELD STAR CONNECTIONS

6.1.M31

6.2.NGC 5128

6.3.Other Galaxies

7.KINEMATICS

7.1.Ellipticals

7.2.Disk Galaxies

8.LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS

9.SIZES

10.DWARF GALAXIES

10.1.Specific Frequencies and Luminosity Functions

10.2.Color Distributions

10.3.Kinematics

11.GLOBULAR CLUSTER FORMATION

11.1Classical Scenarios

11.2Hierarchical Merging and Biasing: Recent Scenarios

12.COSMOLOGICAL FORMATION OF METAL-POOR GLOBULAR CLUSTERS

13.FUTURE DIRECTIONS

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