------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Karel van der Hucht K.A.van.der.Hucht@sron.nl To: gcnews@aoc.nrao.edu Subject: submit New-WR-Annex.pdf A&A 458, 453 (2006) % astro-ph/0609008, A&A 458, 453 (2006) % ftp://ftp.sron.nl/pub/karelh/UPLOADS/papers.dir/New-WR-Annex.pdf \title{New Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars, and candidates. An annex to The VIIth Catalogue of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars} \author{Karel A. van der Hucht} \affil{SRON National Institute for Space Research Sorbonnelaan 2 NL-3584 CA Utrecht the Netherlands} \begin{abstract} This paper gathers, from the literature and private communication, 72 new Galactic Population I Wolf-Rayet stars and 17 candidate WCLd stars, recognized and/or discovered after the publication of The VIIth Catalogue of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars. This brings the total number of known Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars to 298, of which 24 (8%) are in open cluster Westerlund 1, and 60 (20%) are in open clusters near the Galactic Center. \end{abstract}