PHILOSOPHICAL 

 TRANSACTIONS. 



Observations of the apparent distances and positions of 4f5^ double 

 and triple Stars, made in the years 1823, 1824, and 1825; 

 together with a re-examination of 36 Stars of the same descrip- 

 tion, the distances and positions of which were communicated in 

 a former Memoir. By James South, Esq. F. R, S, 



Read November 17, 1825. 



J. H E Royal Society having honoured the observations of 

 380 double and triple stars made by Mr. Herschel and 

 myself with a place in the Philosophical Transactions, I am 

 induced to offer for the like distinction a fresh series. 



The Equatorial Instruments and Micrometers used on the 

 present occasion, being precisely the same as those with 

 which the preceding observations were made, the prefatory 

 matter attached to the former communication, will be gene- 

 rally applicable to this. 



As however some of the results have been obtained in 

 England, and others in France, the place where each series 

 of measures was procured, accompanies the date and instru- 

 ment of observation. 



From the 3rd of April, 1825, to the demolition of the 

 Observatory at Passy, the micrometer of the Five-feet Equa- 

 torial was apphed to the Seven-feet Instrument, in order to 



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