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catalogue of the clusters of stars in the Southern Heavens, 

 15' in diameter. (Cape Observ. pp. 21 and 105, Outl. of 

 Astr. p. 595). 



Cluster of stars near K of the Southern Cross (No. 

 34-35) : composed of many-coloured stars of the 12th to 

 the 16th magnitude, distributed over an area of -^th of a 

 square degree; a nebulous star according to Lacaille, but 

 so completely resolved by Sir John Herschel that no ne- 

 bulous appearance remained : the central star deep red. 

 (Cape Observ. pp. 17 and 102, PL 1, fig. 2). 



Cluster of stars 47 Toucani, Bode ; No. 2322 of Sir 

 John Herschel's catalogue, one of the most remarkable 

 objects of the Southern heavens. I was myself deceived 

 by it for some nights, taking it for a comet, when, on my 

 first arrival in Peru, in 12 South latitude, I saw it rise 

 high above the horizon. Its visibility to the naked eye 

 is so much the greater because, although near the smaller 

 Magellanic Cloud, it is in a place wholly devoid of stars, 

 and has a diameter of 15' to 20'. It is of a pale 

 roseate colour in the inside, surrounded concentrically by 

 a white border, and composed of small stars all about the 

 same magnitude (14m. to 16m.), presenting all the cha- 

 racteristics of bodies of a globular form. ( 241 ) 



Cluster of stars in the girdle of Andromeda, near the 

 star v of that constellation. The resolution of this cele- 

 brated nebula into stars, above 1500 of which have been 

 distinctly made out, is one of the most remarkable dis- 

 coveries of this department of astronomy in our time. 

 Its merit belongs to George Bond, ( 142 ) assistant at the 

 Observatory of Cambridge in, the United States (March 

 1848) ; and it also evidences the excellence and abun- 



