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Part I. Searches in Clusters, Stellar Associations and the Field: 1.Open clusters after HIPPARCOS J. S. Mermilliod; 2. Proper motions of very lowmass stars and brown dwarfs in open clusters N. C. Hambly; 3. Parallaxes forbrown dwarfs in clusters C. G. Tinney; 4. Very low mass stars and browndwarfs in the Belt of Orion S. J. Wolk and F. M. Walter; 5. Photometricsurveys in open clusters M. R. Zapatero Osorio; 6. The mass function of thePleiades R. F. Jameson et al.; 7. Brown dwarfs and the low-mass initial massfunction in young clusters K. L. Luhman; 8. Very low mass stars in globularclusters I. R. King and G. Piotto; 9. The DENIS very low mass star and browndwarf results X. Delfosse and T. Forveille; 10. Preliminary results from the2MASS core project J. Liebert et al.; Part II. Spectroscopic Properties,Fundamental Parameters and Modelling: 11. Properties of M dwarfs in clustersand the field S. L. Hawley et al.; 12. Spectroscopy of very low mass starsand brown dwarfs in young clusters E. L. Martin; 13. High resolution spectraof L type stars and brown dwarfs G. Basri et al.; 14. Modelling very low massstars and brown dwarf atmospheres F. Allard; 15. Dust in very cool dwarfs T.Tsuji; 16. On the interpretation of the optical spectra of very cool dwarfsYa. V. Pavlenko; 17. Absolute dimensions for M type dwarfs A. Gimenez; 18.Theory of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs I. Baraffe; Part III.Convection, Rotation and Acitivity: 19. Convection in low mass stars F.D'Antona; 20. Rotation law and magnetic field in M dwarf models G. Rudigerand M. Kuker; 21. Doppler imaging of cool dwarf stars K. G. Strassmeier; 22.X-ray Emission from cool dwarfs in clusters S. Randich; 23. X-ray variabilityfor dM stars G. Micela and A. Marino; 24. The coronae of AD Leo and EV Lac S.Sciortino et al.; 25. Prospects of vuture X-ray missions for low mass starsand cluster stars R. Pallavicini.