Section 1. Observations of OH/IR and Mira Stars -- Infrared Observations of Radio Luminous OH/IR Stars (invited review) -- High Spatial Resolution IR Observations of Evolved Stars (invited review) -- Mira Variables and the Galactic Bulge Population (invited review) -- Mass Loss From Red Giants: Infrared Spectroscopy (invited review) (abstract only) -- Identification of Cool IRAS Sources -- The Period-Luminosity Relationship for Mira-Like Variables in the LMC -- Distances, Luminosities, and Shell Structures of OH/IR Stars (invited review) -- High Resolution Radio Observations of OH/IR Stars (invited review) (abstract only) -- Identification of OH/IR Stars from Color Selected IRAS Sources -- OH/IR Stars in the Galactic Centre -- 1612 Mhz Survey of Selected IRAS Point Sources -- The Kinematic Nature and Evolution of OH/IR Maser Sources -- A Search for Water Maser Emission from OH/IR Stars -- Non-Variable OH/IR Stars/ Very Young Planetary Nebulae? -- A Study of Dust Condensation Around M Mira Variables Based on IRAS LRS Observations -- Section 2. Observations of Carbon Stars -- Mass Loss from Carbon Stars - Observations of the CO Millimeter Wavelength Rotational Lines -- Interferometric Observations of Circumstellar Envelopes at Millimeter Wavelengths -- The Distribution of Carbon-rich Circumstellar Envelopes in the Milky Way -- IRAS LRS Spectra of Cool Carbon Stars: Clues of Carbon Star Evolution -- Millimeter Interferometer Mapping of HCN Toward CRL2688 -- CO Observations of IRAS Sources with SiC Emission Features -- High-Sensitivity HI Observations of the Circumstellar Envelopes of ? Orionis and IRC+10216 -- CCD Observations of IRC +10 216 -- Carbon Grains in the Circumstellar Envelope of IRC +10 216 -- Complex Molecules in Carbon-Rich Circumstellar Envelopes (invited review) -- Time Variation of Millimeter-wave Molecular Lines From CW Leo and o Ceti -- The Discovery of SO in Red Giant Circumstellar Envelopes -- VLA Observations of NH3 and HC7N in the Egg Nebula CRL2688 -- The Rate of Mass Return to the Galaxy by Evolved Stars -- Section 3. Evolutionary and Theoretical Considerations -- Helium Shell Flashes and Their Consequences (invited review) -- The Magellanic Clouds as a Testing Ground for Theories of the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution (invited review) -- AGB Evolution in Shapley Constellation III -- Connective Overshooting in Horizontal Branch Stars (invited Review) -- Asymptotic Giant Branch Evolution in the Magellanic Clouds -- Mixing at the Carbon-Hydrogen Discontinuity During the Dredge-up Phase in Low-Mass AGB Stars -- Nucleosynthesis in the MS and S Stars -- Nucleosynthesis by 14N Depletion During Shell He Burning in Massive Stars -- The Temperature and Luminosity of the Non-Mira M and S AGB Stars -- Section 4. Mass Loss and Late AGB Evolution -- Pulsation and Mass Loss for AGB Stars (invited review) -- Evidence for Pulsationally Driven Mass-Loss from MIRA Variables -- Quantitative Technetium Abundances in the Long-Period Variables ? Cygni and o Ceti -- Mira Atmospheres: Dynamical Structure and Mass Loss Mechanisms -- A Parameter Study of Terminal AGB Evolution -- Evolution and Pulsations of R CrB Stellar Models -- Broadband Multicolour Photometry of CH Cygni -- The Symbiotic System CH Cygni -- Radio Evidence for Variable Mass Loss from the Symbiotic Star RX Puppis -- AGB Stars in the IRAS Point Source Catalog: Their Nature and Their Galactic Distribution -- Evolution of the Infrared Spectra of AGB Stars -- The Evolution of Thermal Pulsing AGB Stars Derived from the Observations of OH/IR Stars -- Stellar Properties of OH/IR Stars -- Section 5. Young Planetary Nebulae -- Transition from Red Giants to Planetary Nebulae (invited review) -- Mass Loss and the Transformation of AGB Stars into Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae (invited review) -- The Initial-Final Mass Relation: Magellanic Cloud Data and the Thermal Pulsing - AGB Phase -- Mass Loss and the Formation of Multiple Shell Planetary Nebulae -- Infrared Emission from Young Planetary Nebulae (invited review) -- Radio Observations of Young Planetary Nebulae (invited review) -- Mass Loss from Nuclei of Planetary Nebulae -- Determination of Mass Loss Rates in Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae with the "SEI" Method -- Heavy-Element Enrichment in Planetary Nebulae -- Monochromatic Imagery of Some Small Planetary Nebulae with the CFHT Photon-Counting Camera -- The Expansion of NGC7027 -- Visibility Analysis of Compact Nebulae -- A Wind-Shell Model for Radio Emission from Compact Planetary Nebulae -- Nonradial g-Mode Instabilities in Planetary Nebula Nuclei -- Wind-Blown Bubbles: The Evolution of the Complex Structure of NGC 6543 -- Observations of Very Extended Planetary Nebulae Haloes -- The Structure and Kinematics of NGC 2440 -- The Shaping of Planetary Nebulae -- Object Index.