—-- 880—=—<“‘é*S PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTIONS. 
On the Variable Star R. Carine. 
By Jony Tessurt, F.R.A.S. 
[Read before the Astronomical Cour f ne Royal Society of N.S. W.' 
18. 
My attention was first directed to this star by the Uranometria ‘ie 
Argentina, a copy of which magnificent work was presented to me 
by the ways of the Argentine National eeesraph ae | in the ~ 
autumn of 1880. Perceiving from the remarks of Dr. Gould 
that it must prove one of the most remarkable variable mais south ni) 
of the equator, I at once placed it in my list of objects for regular ; 
systematic observation. The earliest record that I can find 
of the star is in Lacaille’s Catalogue of 9766 stars in the Southern — 
Hemisphere, where it is numbered 3932, and is put down as one 
of the 7th magnitude. It was observed three ae with the 
2nd, 1826, and is ag are in the Brisbane. pas aes as No. 2551, 
with a magnitude of 6-7. It is next to be foundina Catalogue of 
seventy-six ruby-coloured or very y interes red insulated Stars, on page 
448 of Sir John Herschel’s Results of Astronomical Observations at 
the Cape of Good Hope. Sir J. Herschel’s observations were mace 
on this star some time during the period 1834-8, and assign 80 
intense sanguine star, between scarlet and carmin 
ae ‘ice observed at the Melbourne Observatory in 1867, namely, 
ce on March 31st, April 3rd and 5th, its magnitude on the ‘ir two 
a g estimated at 6-5 and 6-0 respectively. It fin a | 
ce inthe First Melbourne General Catalogue of 1227 Stars seduced _ 
epoch ev hoe and i is there numbered 480, with a a 
or mean position for that epoch is R.A. = oh, 36m. a tase ; 
. NP.D.= Ten 12’ 49-4". No mea however, seems vyaer 
: the minds of the ‘Melbourne observers @ 
