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PRELIMINARY GENERAL CATALOGUE OF STARS FOR 1900 
Pulk 45. Catalogues for 1845 of stars observed with the Transit and Prime Vertical Circle at 
Pulkowa. 
Paris 45. First epoch, 1845, of the Catalogue of the Paris observations — mainly reobservation of 
Lalande stars. 
Stgo 50. Catalogue of 1963 stars for 1850 from Gillis’s observations at Santiago de Chile. (Wash. 
Obsns., 1868.) 
Gillis Z 50. Catalogue of 16,748 stars for 1850 from observations of southern circumpolar stars at 
Santiago, Gillis. (Wash. Obsns., 1890.) 
Cape 50. Cape Catalogue for 1850 edited by Gill. 
Grw 50. The Greenwich six-year catalogue for 1850. 
Pulk 55. Catalogue for 1855 of observations made with the Repsold Meridian-Circle of the Pulkowa 
observatory. This catalogue is in two parts, one containing 3542, and the other 1404 
numbers respectively. (See Pulk. Obsns., Vol. VIII.) 
Carr 55. The circumpolar catalogue of Carrington for 1855. 
Stgo 55 and Stgo 60. The catalogues from Santiago observations byMoesta, reduced to 1855 and 
i860 respectively. 
Wash 60. Yarnall’s catalogue for i860, third edition, Frisby. 
Cape 60. The Cape Catalogue for i860, reduced by Stone. 
Grw 60. The Greenwich seven-year catalogue for i860. 
Radcl 60. The second Radcliffe Catalogue for i860, Main. 
Melb 60. Catalogue of 546 stars observed at Williamstown (Australia) and reduced to i860. 
(Melb. Obsns., Vol. I.) 
Paris 60. Second epoch, i860, of the Paris Catalogue. 
Grw 64. The second seven-year catalogue of Greenwich for 1864. 
Harv 65. Catalogue for 1865 of right-ascensions observed at the Harvard College observatory, 
506 stars, Safford. (Harv. Ann., Vol. IV, Pt. II.) 
Cape 65. The Cape Catalogue for 1865, prepared by Gill. 
Bruss 65. The general catalogue for 1865 of the Brussels observations, 1857-1878. 
Pulk 65. Observations made at Pulkowa with the Transit and Vertical Circle reduced to 1865, 
and published in four catalogues. 
Grw 72. The Greenwich nine-year catalogue for 1872. 
Melb 70. The Melbourne Catalogue for 1870. 
Wash 75. The Washington Catalogue for 1875, transit-circle, Eastman. 
Cord 75. Gould’s Cordoba General Catalogue of 32,448 stars for 1875. 
Madr 75. Catalogue of Madras observations for 1875. 
Pulk 75. Romberg’s catalogue for 1875, of observations made at Pulkowa with the meridian-circle. 
Becker 75. Becker’s catalogue for 1875 of 521 Bradley-stars, Berlin. 
Harv 75. The catalogue for 1875 of 1213 stars, Rogers. (Harv. Annals, Vol. XV, Pt. I.) 
Paris 75. Third epoch, 1875, of the Paris Catalogue. 
AGZ 75. The zone-catalogues of the Astronomische Gesellschaft for 1875, extending from + 8o° 
to — io° ( + 70° to +75 0 excepted). (The places of these stars were adopted in the 
computations only for a small number of stars unusually deficient in observations of 
an early date.) 
Cape 80. Stone’s Cape Catalogue for 1880. 
Grw 80. The Greenwich ten-year catalogue for 1880. 
Melb 80. The second Melbourne Catalogue for 1880. 
Saff 85. Catalogue for 1875 of right-ascensions of circumpolar stars. Safford, Williamstown, 
Mass. 
