Recent observational and theoretical investigations of the sun and sunlike stars and of galactic structure and evolution are discussed in reviews and reports. Topics addressed include sunspot-group decay rates for 1874-1976, photometry and spectroscopy of solar granulation along the polar axis and equator, the quiescent radio emission of RS CVn binaries, and two-dimensional high-resolution spectroscopy of quiet regions on the sun. Consideration is given to spherical harmonics and Taylor harmonics in the kinematics of the solar neighborhood, radio observations of early-type galaxies with dust lanes, mean-field escapers in nonequilibrium systems, long-slit spectroscopy of the nuclear zone of NGC 253, the early nucleosynthesis of O and Fe, the structure and dynamics of two-dimensional oval configurations, and stochasticity in galactic models.