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Art. XIV. Corrections in Right Ascension of Thirty -Six 

 principal Fixed Stars to every Day of the Year. By 

 James South, F\R.S., F.L.S., Honorary Member of 

 the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and Meviber of 

 the Astronomical Society of London. 



[Concluded from Vol. X. p. 444.] 



A Mr. James Grooby having published in the Philosophical 

 Magazine of February last, the Apparent Right Ascension of 

 Dr. Maskelyne's thirty-six Stars, for every day of the months 

 of March and April, curiosity has naturally induced me to exa- 

 mine how far the corrections given by me in the last'Number of 

 this Journal, would afford similar results ; and, upon mature 

 consideration, I would recommend Mr. Grooby, in his next 

 communication, to revise the preface to his labours of the 12th of 

 f ebruary last; substituting incautiously for " carefully," pur- 

 loined for " calculated," and Mr. James South' s for " Dr. 

 Maskelyne's ;" perJiaps, too, the sentence might be improved, 

 were he to add " found by me in Mr. Brande's Journal of Ja- 

 jiuary last." 



The paragraph will then run thus. " The mean plSiCes., {Right 

 Ascensions, Mr. Grooby, I presume, means,) were deduced from 

 Mr. Pond's table, annexed to the Nautical Almanac for 1823, 

 and the corrections incautiously purloined from Mr. James 

 South's own tables, found by me in Mr. Brande's Journal of 

 January last." Signed (James Grooby.) 



To be serious, however, should the proposed alteration sound 

 unmusical in Mr. Grooby's ears, I can assure him it will afford 

 me great pleasure to retract the sentiments it conveys, on his 

 proving that they are unfounded ; and for this purpose, all that is 

 necessary will be for Mr. Grooby to do again, but in the presence 

 jof mutual friends, what he would have the world believe he has 

 already done, a thing ; which he must acknowledge to be nee 

 fisperum, nee difficile. 



James South. 

 Blaclcman-Sfreet, March 241 Ii, 1821. 



