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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2016
I would like to report on some work that Ed Turner and I have done on groups of galaxies and how groups may be used to obtain useful cosmological information. Of course the classic study of groups of galaxies was done by de Vaucouleurs (1975) who made a catalogue of groups and loose associations of galaxies in the local supercluster. Partly to obtain a larger sample of groups with uniform and well defined statistical properties and partly to obtain a sample of denser groups suitable for virial analysis, Ed Turner and I decided to make a new catalogue of groups of galaxies based on picking the groups as surface density enhancements in the Zwicky catalogue (Turner and Gott 1976) (TGI).