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[en] A comprehensive introduction to the subject of pulsars is provided, and a reasonably complete review of the state of pulsar research at the present time is given. General properties of pulsars, characteristics of integrated pulse profiles, characteristics of individual pulses, the Crab nebular and its pulsar, x-ray pulsars and binary systems, pulse timing observations, pulsars as probes of the interstellar medium, pulsar statistics and the galactic distribution, the rotating neutron star model, and pulse emission mechanisms are treated. 350 references

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[en] Two searches of the southern sky for short period pulsars are briefly described. The first, made using the 64-m telescope at Parkes, is sensitive to pulsars with periods greater than about 10 ms and the second, made using the Molonglo radio telescope, has sensitivity down to periods of about 1.5 ms. Four pulsars were found in the Parkes survey and none in the Molonglo survey, although analysis of the latter is as yet incomplete. 10 references, 1 figure, 2 tables

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[en] The principal parameters of all known pulsars have been compiled and listed in tabular form, together with references to the sources of information. A number of quantities derived from the observations are also tabulated, including distance, height above the galactic plane, spectral index, radio luminosity, rate of kinetic energy loss, characteristic age, and surface magnetic field

[en] The review concentrates on two main areas in which there has been substantial progress during the last few years and which look promising for future work. First is a summary of the existing observational material relevant to the pulse emission mechanism. Second is the origin and evolution of pulsars

[en] The observed properties of pulsars, both intrinsic and resulting from propagation effects in the interstellar medium, are discussed. Subjects include pulse period, dispersion, pulse shape, radio spectrum, optical and x-ray spectra, amplitude fluctuations, drifting subpulses, periodic fluctuations, nulls, scintillation, characteristic fluctuation times and bandwidths, pulse smearing, polarization, integrated observations, correlation of pulsar properties, pulsar models, rotating neutron stars, magnetic dipole radiation, radio and optical emission mechanisms, and period discontinuities. (U.S.)