VOL. LXXXI.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, 23 



Jan. 6, 1785. A bright star with a considerable milky cheveliire; a little ex- 

 tended, 4 or 5' in length, and near 4' broad; it loses itself insensibly. Other 

 stars of equal magnitude are perfectly free from this chevelure. (u. a. 5*^ 30™ 53% 

 p.D. 92°2r). The connection between the star and the chevelure cannot be 

 doubted, from the insensible gradation of its luminous appearance, decreasing as 

 it receded from the centre. 



Jan. 31, 1785. A pretty considerable star, with a very faint, and very small, 

 irregular, milky chevelure; other stars of the same size are perfectly free from 

 such appearance (a). He can have no doubt of the connection between the 

 star and its chevelure. 



Oct. 5, 1785. A star with a strong bur all around. A 2d observation calls 

 it a very bright nucleus, with a milky nebulosity, of no great extent. A 3d 

 suspects the milkiness to belong to more of the same, which is diffused over the 

 whole sweep in that place; but a 4th says, that the milky nebulosity is much 

 stronger than what the nebulous ground, on which the star is placed, entitles it 

 to (6). The connection therefore between the nebulosity and the star is evident. 



Jan. 1, 1786. A star surrounded with milky chevelure; the star is not cen- 

 tral. A 2d observation calls it affected with a very faint, and extensive, milky 

 chevelure. A 3d only mentions a star affected with milky chevelure (c). As by 

 the word chevelure he always denoted something relating to a centre, the con- 

 nection cannot be doubted. 



Feb, 24, 1786. A considerable star, very faintly affected with milky cheve- 

 lure. A 2d observation, much the same {d). 



Nov. 28, 1786. A star involved in milky chevelure (e). 



Jan. 17, 1787. A star with a pretty strong milky nebulosity, equally dispersed 

 all around; the star is of about the gth magnitude. A memorandum to the ob- 

 servation says, that, having but just begun, I suspected the glass to be covered 

 with damp, or the eye out of order; but yet a star of the 10th or 1 1th magni- 

 tude, just north of it, w^s free from the same appearance. A 2d observation 

 calls it one of the most remarkable phenomena I ever have seen, and like my 

 northern planetary nebula in its growing state (/). The connection between the 

 star and the milky nebulosity is without all doubt. 



Nov. 3, 1787. A bright star with faint nebulosity. A 2d observation men- 

 tions the star to be of the gth magnitude, and the faint nebulosity of very little 

 extent (g). 



June 11, 1787. Suspected stellar. By a 2d observation it is verified, and 

 called a very small star involved in extremely faint nebulosity (h). 



(a) H. A. 6" 54." 27\ p. D. 100° 53'. (i) R. A. 5" 25™ 57% p. d. 96° 52'. (c) r. a. 5" 35" 56% 

 p. D. 89° 50'. (d) R. A. 5" 59" 4-% P. D. 96° 19'- (e) R. a. 5" 57" 4% p. d. 96° 15'. {/) r. a. 

 7" 16° 28% P. D. 68° 39'. (g) R. A. 23" ll" 26% P. D. 30». (/i) R. a. 17" 1" 51% P. d. 47° 26'. 



