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Introduction. 
Scope of the Catalogue ....... 
History and Design of this Work ..... 
Description of the Catalogue. 
The Standard Catalogue ....... 
Magnitude-Equation ........ 
Selection and Improvement of Standards .... 
Recapitulation ......... 
The Columns of the Catalogue. 
Adopted Names ........ 
Magnitudes of the Stars ....... 
Right-Ascensions and Declinations ..... 
Mean Epochs ......... 
Annual and Secular Variation and Third Term of Precession 
Formulas of Application ...... 
Proper-Motions ......... 
Probable Errors. 
Method of correcting the Catalogue-Positions and Motions by Mea 
Observations ...... 
The Notes to the Catalogue. 
Appendix I, Ephemerides of Polar Stars . 
Appendix II, Notes to the Catalogue, Periodic Proper-Motion, etc. 
Appendix III, Systematic Corrections and Weights . 
The Catalogue. 
Appendix I, Ephemerides of Polar Stars .... 
Appendix II, Notes to the Catalogue, Periodic Proper-Motion 
Appendix III, Systematic Corrections and Weights 
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