# Errata: Observations of the Apparent Distance and Positions of 380 Double and Triple Stars, Made in the Years 1821, 1822, and 1823, and Compared with Those of Other Astronomers; Together with an Account of Such Changes as Appear to Have Taken Place in Them Since Their First Discovery. Also a Description of a Five-Feet Equatorial Instrument Employed in the Observations

**Author(s):** Anonymous  
**Year:** 1826  
**Journal:** Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London  
**Volume:** 116  
**Pages:** 2 pages  
**Identifier:** jstor-107795  
**JSTOR URL:** <https://www.jstor.org/stable/107795>  

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A careful revision of the former communication on Double Stars, Phil. Trans. 1824. iii. has led to the detection (among several errata of trifling importance), to the following of a grave character, which the reader of that paper is earnestly requested to correct in his Copy.

| Page, &c. | Error | Correction |
|-----------|-------|------------|
| 124       | Mean 54 Cancri. | Near 54 Cancri. |
| 216       | 48.845 | 40.845     |
| 325       | 4.13   | 44.6       |
| 337       | 97.60  | 107.60     |
| 337 twice and in Index, Star No. 301 | 23.467 | 25.871 |
| 338       | Z = + 1.44 | Z = - 1.44 |
| 355       | Z = - 0.12 | Z = + 0.12 |
| 167 and in Index No. 144 | { 73° 50' | 72° 50' |
|           | 73 54   | 72 54      |
| 101 and in Index No. 79 | 16" 988 | 15" 966 |
| 323 twice and in Index No. 287 | 67° 46' | 22° 14' |
| Index No. 105 | 9 42 | 9 12 |
| Index No. 110 in Column of Decl. | 12 17 | 17 12 |
| Index No. 278 | 278 | 278 |
| Index No. 222 | Mean mot. - 2°.13 | Mean mot. + 2°.13 |

Errata to be corrected in the present Memoir.

Page 209, for "between 36 and 38," read north following 36.
— 353, for "1825.252," read 1825.52.
— vi. (Index) H. and S. 74; for + 0°.009, read + 0°.109.
— viii. (Index) S. 600; Re-exam. add in col. of Remarks, the word "Binary."

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