Named in honor of Gerald E. Kron, member of the staff of the Lick Observatory during 1938–1965 and director of the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Flagstaff station during 1965–1973. A pioneer in the application of the photomultiplier tube to astronomical photometry, he has published a large quantity of high-precision photometric measurements of stars, clusters and galaxies. In addition, he developed an improved data-retrieval system for the Lallemand electronic camera, which he then applied to a study of globular clusters. (M 8800) _ _.