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516 magnitudes six and eight, distance 1·8", p. 287°. Σ 2737 (the first star to the left of Σ 2735, the name having accidentally been omitted from the map) is a beautiful triple, although the two



closest stars, of magnitudes six and seven, can not be separated by our instruments. Their distance in 1886 was 0·78", p. 286°, and they had then been closing rapidly since 1884, when the distance was 1·26". The third star, of magnitude eight, is distant 11″, p.