“…During this time, Galactic Σ − D relations were studied by Downes (1971), Ilovaisky & Lequeux (1972), Woltjer (1972), Berkhuijsen (1973), Clark & Caswell (1976), Sabbadin (1977), Milne (1979), Caswell & Lerche (1979), Göbel et al (1981), Lozinskaya (1981) and Sakhibov & Smirnov (1982). Critical analysis of this relation began with Allakhverdiyev et al (1983a,b) and continued with the research of Green (1984), Allakhverdiyev et al (1986a), and Allakhverdiyev et al (1986b). Inaccurate calculations of the distances to certain calibrators is the basic deficiency of the relations derived in this manner, i.e.…”