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and positions of 458 double and triple stars, &c. 
Douanes, Mons. le Marquis de Vaulchier, and so extreme 
the politeness of the principal and subordinate officers of the 
Customs at Calais, that the importation and exportation of 
them, were affairs, not of difficulty, but of gratification. 
It is needless to state, that on the establishment of an 
observatory by a private individual in a foreign country, 
many difficulties must be encountered. To Mons. Benjamin 
Delessert, whose liberality in promoting every thing which 
has science for its aim knows no bounds, I stand indebted, 
amongst other things, for whatever comfort my observatory 
afforded. 
From the members of the Royal Academy of Sciences of 
Paris I uniformly received every possible attention, whilst 
to Messrs. De la place, Arago, Bouvard, Humboldt, and 
Poisson, a residence of fifteen months has placed me under 
obligations of no common order : they were received with 
pride, and are remembered with gratitude. 
The Society have now before them, with few exceptions, 
a re-examination of all the identified double and triple stars 
described by Sir W. Herschel in the Philosophical Transac- 
tions ; with the sentiments therefore of the illustrious author 
of the Mecanique Celeste I will conclude — “ Had the labours 
of Sir W. Herschel been confined to this department of astro- 
nomy, the discoveries he has made in it would have alone 
conferred upon him an imperishable name.” 
JAMES SOUTH. 
Patsy ; Rue Franklin, No. 19, 
Oct. 22, 1825. 
