B.H.M, 
€o Mr ; Goodricke’s Oifervatms 
1784 and 1785, 
D. H. 
Nov. 25, 8f' 
Feb. 8, 9 . 
| an interval of 14 periods each of 
5 
8 34 + 
Dec. ir, 6| " 
Feb. 8, 9 . 
j. ditto 
M 
ditto 
5 
8 54 i 
Nov. 25, 8|"| 
April 8, 8 J 
. ditto 
25 
ditto 
5 8 36 
Nov. 30, 1 6 ■ 
April 8, 8 . 
^ ditto 
24 
ditto 
5 
8 40 
Nov. 30, 16 "j 
L ditto 
27 
ditto 
5 
8 35 * ~ 
April 24, 8 J 
r 
Oft. 23, 21 -) 
May 21, 0 j 
j. ditto 
39 
ditto 
5 
8 4 1 i + 
Nov. 19, 22 *| 
May 21, 0 J 
^ ditto 
3 4 
ditto 
5 
00 
■fow 
Dec. 22, 1 ] 
May 21, 0 J 
► ditto 
28 
ditto 
5 
8 32 -f 
Nov. 19, 22 ] 
April 2, 23 J 
j, ditto 
2 5 
ditto 
5 
CO 
O 
■W* 
Nov. 19, 22 
Dec. 22, 1 J 
[ • ditto 
6 
ditto 
5 
8 30 
Hence the period is, on a mean, 
5 
8 37I+, 
A few curfory remarks fhall conclude this Paper. What I 
have before mentioned, that the greateft brightnefs of $ Cephei 
does not feem to be always quite the fame, is not peculiar to 
this ftar, but is alfo to be obferved in the other variable ones. 
I have remarked in a late Paper, that the greateft brightnefs of 
/3 Lyrae is fubjeft to confiderable alterations, and thought then 
that it might be owing to fome fallacy of obfervation ; but now 
3 I have 
