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The temperature dependence of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy field (mu-0H(a)) of R2Fe14B(1-y)C(y) and Nd2Fe12Co2B(1-y)C(y) (R = Nd, Pr; y = 0, 0.5) compounds has been determined by applying the SPD (singular point detection) technique in a high pulse magnetometer in the temperature range of 300-600 K. To determine the Curie temperature (T(c)) of the compounds, the ac initial susceptibility measurement was employed. It was found that the influences of carbon substituting for boron and cobalt substituting for iron on the Curie temperature are independent of each other and the latter has been understood as the case where all 2p electrons which transferred from carbon to 3d bands localize around Fe. The effect of crystal electric field acting on the rare earth site is dominant at temperatures below 400 K in R2Fe14B (R = Nd, Pr) compounds. The substitution of small amounts of cobalt for Fe does not affect the crystal electric field acting on the rare earth site very much.