NEW DOUBLE STARS AND MEASURES, 95 
year. 
With regard to other matters affecting the observations, I_may 
h thin brass, an 
In entering the notes at the time of observation, a diagram 
wing the estimated distance and angle has been made in almost 
ery case 
evi 
A few words about the list of 350 new double stars, which I 
have the honor to present to the Society tonight. They cannot 
be said to be the fruits of a search for new stars, for except an 
evening now and then devoted to that work, and some tume 
recently given to it at my request by Mr. Hargrave, my object has 
been to re-examine Sir John Herschel’s Cape list between 34 south 
nee as Sir John Herschel; but I anxious to avoid 
burdening the list in that way, and made my limit much smaller, 
nd was always more anxious close pairs than ones. 
Nine of the new ones are under one second of arc*—several of 
twenty-five seconds, and all of them are between the — 
South and the pole, with one exception, which was foun 3 
the field of view with one of h.’s stars. As they are so far sou 
