the GreeJc Text of the Mathematical Collections of' Pappus. ^^5 
original Greek of Pappus for the press. The great difficulty of 
forming any thing like a tolerable text, must, of course, have led 
to a critical examination of different MSS. ; and the apparatus 
with which this will have provided him, will add greatly to the 
value of a publication which has long been looked to with ear- 
nest wishes, but with little expectation. 
Art. VI. — Catalogue of the Declination of 26 Fixed Stars for 
1820, according to the Observatioiis of Professor Bessel. 
Communicated by Professor Tralles of Berlin. 
Declination of S6 Stars for January 1 . 1820 *, as determined by the 
Observations of Professor Bessel at Konigsberg, with the Dif- 
ferences between them and those in Mr Pond's Catalogue in the 
Nautical Almanack Jor \ 824, 
Names of 
North Declin. 
Probable 
Error. 
Pond. 
Stars. 
o / // 
// 
// 
a Aurigae, 
45 48 9.12 
0.18 
— 0.12 
a Cygni, 
44 38 28.47 
0.18 
-1-1.53 
« Lyrae, 
38 37 17.77 
0.24 
+ 2.23 
a Gemini (seq.) 
32 16 21.05 
0.23 
— 0.05 
/3 Gemini. 
28 27 5.54 
0.22 
— 0.54 
iS Tauri, 
28 26 40.40 
0.23 
+ 0.60 
u Andromedae, 
28 5 46.59 
0.22 
+ 0.41 
« Coronaa, 
27 19 34.44 
0.22 
+ 2.56 
a Arietis, 
22 36 22.32 
0.23 
+ 0.63 
« Bootes, 
20 7 25.43 
0.21 
+ 1,57 
a Tauri, 
16 8 17.16 
0.22 
— 0.16 
p, Leonis, 
15 34 40.04 
0.24 
+ 1.96 
a Hercules, 
14 36 10.45 
0.24 
+ 2.55 
« Pegasl, 
14 14 19.05 
0.24 
+ 1.95 
y Pegasi. 
14 10 56.22 
0.23 
+ 3.78 
a Leonis, 
12 50 33.58 
0.22 
+ 2,42 
a Ophiuchi, 
12 41 55.66 
0.24 
+ 2.34 
y Aquilae, 
10 10 53.97 
0.23^ 
+ 4.03 
a Aquilae. 
8 24 0.69 
0.21 
+ 2.31 
a Orionis, 
7 21 50.69 
0.22 
+ 1.31 
a Serpentis, 
’ 6 59 54 84 
0.20 
+ 2.16 
p Aquilae,, 
5 57 50.84 
0.23 
+ 5.16 
a Canis min. 
5 40 40.32 
0.21 
+ 0.68 
a Ceti, 
3 22 37.67 
0.24 
+ 4.33 
P Virginia, 
2 46 42.81 
0.29 
+ 2.19 
See this Journal., Vol. I, p. 320. 
