478 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [ANNO 1799. 



29 "March 21, 1797. The pd of this star in the British catalogue requires 

 + 1°." 



Notes to Taurus. — 3 Does not exist. Flamsteed never observed it. 



8 " Jan. 10, 1796. This star does not exist. Flamsteed has no observation of 

 it. There is a star about 9m not far from the place." 



9. " Dec. 28, 1798. This star is lost." M. de la Lande says it is not to be 

 found. See Mr. Bode's Ast. Jahr-Buch for 1795, p. 198. Flamsteed has 2 com- 

 plete observations of it, p. 86, and p. 500*. We can hardly admit what Mr. Bode 

 suggests, that this star, like the rest, has found its way into the British catalogue 

 by some error of writing, or of calculating the observations ; it will therefore be 

 advisable to look for a future re-appearance of it, as it may prove to be a periodical 

 or changeable one. 



n (15) Does not exist. Flamsteed has no observation of it. 



34 The estimation " 39 — 34" belongs to a star very nearly in the place where, 

 according to Flamsteed's observation, 34 should be ; but, as we know by calcula- 

 tion that the Georgian planet was about the situation where, the 13 of Dec. 1690, 

 Flamsteed observed the supposed 34th, there can be no doubt but that he must 

 have seen it, and taken it for a fixed star. The magnitude, 6m, which he assigned 

 to 34, agrees perfectly well with the lustre of the planet, compared with other stars 

 which the same author has marked 6m"; and, with his telescope, he could not have 

 the most distant suspicion of its being any other object than a fixed star of about 

 the 6th magnitude. 



40. " March 4, 1796. The ra in the Atlas requires a correction of about + 20'." 



55. In the British catalogue, the pd requires — 8'. 



56. The ra in the British catalogue requires — 15'. 



82 Does not exist. Flamsteed did not observe this star, unless we admit a cor- 

 rection of the British catalogue — 1° 5' in pd. 



99. Flamsteed has no observation of this star; but, as there is one in the heavens, 

 about a degree more north, the British catalogue requires probably a correction of 

 — 1° in pd. 



100. This star is lost. Flamsteed settled its place, p. 369, and the observation 

 seems to be a very good one. 



103. Flamsteed has no observation of this star. How it came to be inserted in 

 the British catalogue does not appear. I have given it as a double star v, 114, and 

 here also estimated its brightness ; but it must be remembered that my estimations 

 do not strictly ascertain the place of objects. If therefore 103 does not exist, my 

 double star, as well as the one here estimated, must be some star not far from the 

 place assigned to 103 in the British catalogue. 



p (112) Is 23 Aurigae. 



118 The Atlas should be corrected — 30' in ra. 



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