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The Editors Preface vii The Editors C. T. C. Wall's contributions tothe topology of manifolds 3 C. T. C. Wall's publication list 17 J. MilnorClassification of (n - l)-connected 2n-dimensional manifolds and thediscovery of exotic spheres 25 S. Novikov Surgery in the 1960's 31 W.Browder Differential topology of higher dimensional manifolds 41 T. LanceDifferentiable structures on manifolds 73 E. Brown The Kervaire invariantand surgery theory 105 A Kreck A guide to the classification of manifolds121 J. Klein Poincare duality spaces 135 A Davis Poincare duality groups167 J. Davis Manifold aspects of the Novikov Conjecture 195 I. Hambletonand L. Taylor A guide to the calculation of the surgery obstruction groupsfor finite groups 225 C. Stark Surgery theory and infinite fundamentalgroups 275 E. Pedersen Continuously controlled surgery theory 307 W. MioHomology manifolds 323 J. Levine and K. Orr A survey of applications ofsurgery to knot and link theory 345 J. Roe Surgery and C*-algebras 365 R.J. Milgram The classification of Aloff-Wallach manifolds and theirgeneralizations 379 C. Thomas Elliptic cohomology 409