466 Additional Notes. 



ticularly distinguished themselves. — Mr. Herschell pro- 

 poses to designate thes^ celestial bodies, for the present, by 

 the term " Asteroids." 



Catalogues of S^ars. p. 65. 



Catalogues of Stars are of two kinds, either as collected 

 into certain figures called Const ellat ions ^ or according to their 

 light ascensionSy or, in other words, according to their order 

 in passing over the meridian. 



The first specimen of this latter kind of Catalogue, that is, 

 according to the order of the right ascensions, was that pub- 

 lished by De la Catlle, in 1755. It contains the right 

 ascensions and declinations of 307 stars, adapted to the be- 

 ginning of the year 1750. In 1757 the same great astro- 

 nomer published his Astronomic Fundamenta, containing a 

 catalogue of the right ascensions and declinations of 398 stars. 

 And in 1763, the year after his death, was published the 

 Caelum Australe Stdlijermn, also by the same author, con- 

 taining a catalogue of the places of 1 942 stars. 



In the Nautical Alma)2ack (or 1113 is given a catalogue 

 of 387 stars, in right ascension, declination, longitude, and la- 

 titude, derived from the observations of the celebrated Dr. 

 Bradley, Astronomer Royal of Great-Britain; adapted to 

 the beginning of the year 1760. 



In 1775 was published a catalogue, among the papers of 

 the late Tobias Mayer, containing the right ascensions and 

 declinations of 998 stars, which may be occulted by the 

 Moon and Planets, adjusted to the year 115&. 



At the end of the first volume of " Astronomical Observa- 

 tions made at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich," pub- 

 lished in 1776, Dr Maskelyne, the present Astronomer 

 Royal, has given a catalogue of the places of 34 principal 

 stars, in right ascension, and north polar distance; adapted 

 to the beginning of the year 1770. 



In 1782, M. Bode, of Berlin, published a very extensive 

 catalogue of 5058 stars, collected from the observations of 

 Vlamstead, Bradley, Hevelius, Mayer, De la 

 Caille, Messier, Monnier, D'Arquier, and other 

 astronomers; all adapted to the beginning of the year 1780, 

 and accompanied with a celestial Atias, or set of maps of the 

 constellations, engraved in a most delicate and beautiful 

 manner. 



