REMARKS. INDICES V-B,B-U,U-W,B-L ARE EXPRESSED IN DECIMAL LOGARITHMES OF THE INTENSITY V OF JOHNSON IN MAGNITUDES. SOME PUBLICATION ONLY GIVE WALRAVEN'S V INDICE. THEN WE HAVE USED THE FOLLOWING TRANSFORMATIONS V OF JOHNSON =6.88-2.5(V-0.08(V-B)) FOR PUBLICATIONS EDITED BEFORE 1971 AND V OF JOHNSON=6.874-2.5(V+0.065(V-B)) FOR THE OTHERS. IN THE FILE CONTAINING THE HOMOGENOUS VALUES(3), WE HAVE TRANSFORMED ALL THE DATA EDITED BEFORE 1971,THE RESPONSE CURVES OF THE PASSBANDS HAVING CHANGED BETWEEN THE FIRST AND THE LAST MEASUREMENTS. - THE TRANSFORMATIONS - V*=V-0.026(V-B)-0.002 (V-B)*=(V-B)-0.026(V-B)-0.002 (B-L)*=(B-L) (B-U)*=(B-U) (U-W)*=0.93(U-W) IF(U-W) L. T. 0.25 (U-W)*=(U-W)-0.018 IF (U-W) G. T. 0.25 * INDICATES THE NEW ADAPTED VALUES. FILE 3 DOES NOT CONTAIN COLOURS PUBLISHED IN THE 11001 PUBLICATION THE TRANSFORMATION FROM (V-B) TO THE B-V OF JOHNSON IS NOT UNIQUE,AND IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO CALCULATE THE B-U,U-W AND B-L INDICES IF WE ONLY HAVE THE PUBLISHED UNREDDENED ((B-U)),((U-W)) AND ((B-L)) COLOURS OF THIS PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE ((V-B)) INDICES. BUT FILE 2 CONTAINS THESE UNREDDENED VALUES. WE HAVE DISTINGUISHED BETWEEN MICROVARIABLES -V- AND VARIABLES -V*- THE VALUES OF THE VARIABLES STARS HAVE BEEN OMITTED IN THE HOMOGENOUS CATALOGUE BUT A COMPLETE INFORMATION ABOUT THE COLOURS OF THESE STARS CAN BE FOUND IN THE CATALOGUE OF THE PUBLICATIONS (FILE 2)