Letter from Thomas Gold to Dr Franco Pacini, european Southern Observtory, ESO Telescope Project Division, c/o CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Regrets he cannot make it to Frascati, which is very sad, but constraints of both time adn money make it impossible. Pacini could say Gold believes all star formation occurs only in the central sheets, and all shpes of galaxies - ellipticals, even globular clusters - are the subsequent sonsequences of dynamical evolution, involving multi-body interactions, tidal interactions, external wind sweeping action and collisions. 19 April 1976