OF THE SECTIONS: 
sie honk, within the limits of this region. It was Sir 
ors Herschel, I believe, who first pointed out this tendency. fay oan 
e grouping of the variable stars, but I think afterall itis only 
due to the circumstance that the stars in general are far more 
to 
Brey as cies iven The first paper which T had the honor of reading before: . 
our Society, in the days when it bore the - of the “Philosophical 
ee Society of New South Wales ” was one on the “ Desirability Of: te 
ey Feabosunti search for and observation of ariable Stars 4 
eet ek Southern Hemisphere.” Gk was in August, 1862. In that e 
_ paper a list was given of the number of variables discovered in : 
each decade of the present Soaliey. but during the last two — i 
decades the progress of discove ry has gone on with accelerated 
ss rapidity. Can no amateur be found in New South Wales towork = 
in this field which promises to be so fruitful? Not only is it 
ards, already in 9° te a 
_ persons, might be rentared extremely Livissabls by their empl 
ment in the search for and observ: ager of variable stars. 
woul ; on the minds of those 
Seem scarcely necessary to impre " 
_ who talk much about large telescopes, but do little else, the truth 
of this maxim, = 
and soul of his telescope, and the existence both o: 
Sontag is made Knows to future ages by the : 
