Present Catalogue Research Articles

The Hymenoptera (Chalcidoidea, Ichneumonoidea, Platygastroidea) described by Vittorio Delucchi: an annotated catalogue

The present catalogue lists 144 species and one subspecies described by Delucchi (134), Delucchi et al. (eight), Ferrière in Delucchi (two), and Ferrière and Delucchi (one). Name-bearing types are deposited in the entomological collections at the Lund University (three), the Natural History Museums of Budapest (three), Geneva (nine), London (four), Oxford (one), Paris (three), and Vienna (35), the Royal Africa Museum, Tervuren (26), and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (60). The actual depository of the name-bearing types of one species and the subspecies (Scelionidae) is unknown. Lectotypes of 15 species are here designated. Twenty new synonyms are established, Eulophidae: Entedon erdoesi Delucchi= E. metatarsalis Thomson. Pteromalidae: Gitognathus gibberosus Delucchi and Lamprotatus kerrichi Delucchi= Sphaeripalpus viridis Förster; Glyphognathus umbelliferae Graham= G. convexus (Delucchi); Kentema viride Delucchi= Merismus megapterus Walker; Lamprotatus cupreus Delucchi, L. ornatus Delucchi, and L. rusticus Delucchi= L. splendens Westwood; Lamprotatus flavus Delucchi= L. crassipes Thomson; Lamprotatus montanus Delucchi= L. picinervis Thomson; Miscogaster fulgens Delucchi= M. rufipes Walker; Miscogaster lucens Delucchi= M. hortensis Walker; Seladerma agreste Delucchi= S. convexum Walker; Seladerma luteolum Delucchi= S. bicolor Walker; Seladerma nobile Delucchi and S. violaceum Delucchi= S. laetum Walker; Skeloceras cerebrosum Delucchi= Lamprotatus truncatus (Fonscolombe); Skeloceras glaucum Delucchi= Lamprotatus novickyi (Delucchi); Stictomischus lamprosomus Graham= S. nitentis Delucchi; Telepsogos helveticus Delucchi= Seladerma nigrum (Delucchi). Twelve new combinations are proposed, Eulophidae: Achrysocharoides parva (Delucchi) (from Enaysma); Aprostocetus hanangensis (Delucchi), A. longiscutulum (Delucchi), A. scutellaris (Delucchi), Neotrichoporoides crassianulus (Delucchi), N. microstigma (Delucchi), and Pracetus stramenticius (Delucchi) (all from Tetrastichus); Notanisomorphella bicolor (Delucchi) (from Sunha); Platyplectrus meruensis (Delucchi) (from Euplectromorpha). Pteromalidae: Glyphognathus convexus (Delucchi) (from Stictomischus) and G. nitidus (Delucchi) (from Sphaeripalpus); Theocolax oblonga (Delucchi) (from Cerocephala). The paper provides taxonomic notes on several species, references to published figures of and detailed information on type specimens. Parts of them, mostly antennae and wings, were mounted on slides by Delucchi and were contained in a hitherto unknown slide collection. These slides are individually associated with the respective specimens.

The Asiago Supernova Catalogue - 10 years after

Ten years after the publication of the previous release, we present a new edition of the Asiago Supernova Catalogue updated to December 31, 1998 and containing data for 1447 supernovae and their parent galaxies. In addition to the list of the data for a large number of new SNe, we made an effort to search the literature for new information on past SNe as well. We also tried to update and homogenize the data for the parent galaxies. To allow a global view of the Catalogue, a few descriptive figures and a summary table are reported. The present Catalogue is intended as a large and modern database for statistical studies on the supernova phenomenon.

CATALOGHI DI STRUMENTI SCIENTIFICI NELLA BIBLIOTECA DELL'OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PALERMO*

Abstract<title> SUMMARY </title>The present catalogue includes the descriptions of 147 trade publications, dealing with scientific instruments, belonging to the Library of the Palermo Astronomical Observatory. This collection is a rather conspicuous one, especially if one considers the traditionally «ephemeral» nature of such material. A number of catalogues (73) were published before 1915, while the remaining span up to 1972. For consistency with the Handlist of Scientific Instrument-Makers Trade Catalogues, 1600-1914 published in 1990 by R. G. W. Anderson, J. Burnett, B. Gee, of which the present catalogue is meant to be an addendum, we have followed the same temporal partition. Items are listed in alphabetical order by makers' name, and in within publications by the same maker, in chronological order. Descriptions follow the ISBD rules, i.e. they are divided into a sequence of areas, separated by conventional punctuation. Every effort has been made to give publications dates, even though these are sometimes approximative, being desumed from information internal to the text.

A catalogue of earthquakes in Sweden in 1375–1890

Abstract The present catalogue of earthquakes in Sweden between the years 1375 and 1890 contains 338 entries with maximum intensity, MM Scale, ranging from III to VII, radius of area of perceptibility from 10 to 300 km, and local magnitude, MM(UPP), from 2.2 to 4.8. The quantification of earthquake parameters also includes time and place of occurrence, and is based on macroseismic data compiled from various sources. The distribution of epicentres is shown in a map and is similar to that obtained from more recent, instrumental data—with highest seismicity in the Lake Vanern area and along the Gulf of Bothnia—except that historical data from Lappland are almost lacking. Various spatial and temporal inconsistencies in the catalogue are discussed. There is an apparent seasonal peak in the seismic activity during the winter months, which has no correspondence in the instrumental-time record and probably is an artifact of erroneous interpretation of frost-related phenomena. The catalogue, which can probably be ...

Frequency-magnitude relationships of southern African seismicity

The seismicity of southern Africa is discussed in terms of seismicity maps, the completeness of the existing catalogue of seismic events for the region and frequency-magnitude relationships. The present catalogue of earthquakes seems to be complete for events of M L ≥ 4.6 since 1950, for events of M L ≥ 4.9 since 1910 and for events of M L ≥ 5.3 since 1906. Analysis of earthquake statistics reveals a b-value for natural earthquakes of 1.1, increasing to 1.5 for mine tremors. It is suggested that the maximum expected magnitude of an earthquake in the region is in the order of M = 7.5 and that mine tremors as high as M ~ 5 1 2 may occur. It is concluded that much more high quality data from more seismograph stations are required to sensibly investigate the seismotectonic characteristics of the region.

The inexact catalogue: the study of more than 1700 earthquakes from the XI to the XX century in Italy*

ABSTRACTThe relevant results of the study of more than 1700 Italian historical earthquakes from the year 1000 to 1982 are presented here. The research was carried out from 1983 to 1987 as part of a study promoted by ENEL (the National Electricity Board) for the seismic siting of nuclear power plants. A single coherent project has been developed, that involved 111 historical researchers who operated in 813 research centres in Italy and abroad. Problems such as the methods, research, analysis and interpretation of the numerous and various effects caused both by destructive and non‐destructive earthquakes recorded in the historical sources, have been considered on a large scale for the first time.The earthquake records, collected in a data bank and interpreted according to a multi‐disciplinary historical and seismological approach, have allowed the detailed reconstruction of the location and chronology of both individual and repeated events.This major research study has allowed us to evaluate the inexactness of the present Catalogue of Italian earthquakes in relation to the parameters of intensity, location and dating.From the synthesis of the results of the revision emerged sufficient information to value the reliability of the present Catalogue. TERRA Nova (1989) 1, 151–162.

Some characteristics of the Plecoptera fauna in Slovenia

BIOGEOGFIAPHIA — val. XIII — 1987 Biogeografia deIIe Alpi Sud-Orientali Sorne characteristics’ of the Plecoptera fauna in Slovenia IGNAC SIVEC Ncztztml History Museum of Slozxemkz, Ljzzbljamz, Yugoslczmz The first record on the Slovenian stonefly fauna was presented by Scopoli in Entomologia Carniolica published in 1763, however, our fauna was hardly known until recently. Intensive investigations on this order of insects have been made during the last 6 years, contributing to the perfection of our knowledge on the fauna of this part of the Balcan Peninsula. The specimens were taken in a large number from streams of very differ- ent types: small spring streams, karst rheocrenes, as well as larger streams and rivers in mountains and also foothills. Contrary to most of other entom- ological groups, the southern parts of Yugoslavia are much more abundant in the variety and the number of species than its northern part, which does not apply to the stonefly fauna of Slovenia. The present catalogue of the Slovenia Plecoptera contains 94 species. These belong to 16 genera and all of the 7 European families of Plecoptera are present. According to lllies Limnofauna, the territory of Slovenia belongs to 5 «lirnnogeographicalgg regions. The contact of the Alpine influence on one side with the Central European, Mediterranean, Dinaric and even Carpath- ian, on the other has made our stonely fauna one of richest not only within Yugoslavia but also in Europe as Whole. 621

Cosmetic Sets from Late Iron Age and Roman Britain

In 1980, during British Museum excavations at Stonea Grange, Cambs., a group of metal finds collected over a number of years in the fields surrounding the site, were shown to the writer. They included two examples (FIG. 1) of an enigmatic class of small cast bronze object first discussed more than sixty years ago by Reginald Smith. They are still ill-understood, but not uncommon; the present catalogue, certainly incomplete, contains 99 examples.

Catalogue de la collection de météorites du musée de minéralogie Institut des sciences de la terre Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg 1980

The mineralogical museum of the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg includes a collection of about 480 samples from 279 meteorites and 6 tektites. The present catalogue is based on the classification of J.T. Wasson. The first part gives a brief account on nomenclature and classification principles of meteorites. The second part gives the alphabetical list of the meteorites present in this collection with a short description, their classification, number and mass of the specimens. The third part is an index in which the meteorites are ordered according to their chemical group and petrologic type.

Catalogue of Early Printed Music in Aberdeen Libraries

Three Libraries in Aberdeen possess substantial collections of early music - the University Library, the library of the University Music Department, and the City Public Library. None, however, has a separate catalogue for its early music, and it has been virtually impossible hitherto to ascertain what each library contains. Thus these collections have remained largely unused and unusable, and have never been thoroughly examined. The aims of the present union catalogue covering the three libraries are accordingly to indicate what is available in each, to enable the collections to be more widely used and to stimulate interest in them generally. As in similar publications, particularly that of Schnapper (1957) and various volumes of RISM, the terminal date has been fixed at 1800. However, a few items which may be of slightly later date are included with the conjectural date ‘c. 1800’, and items which clearly seem to be of a later date but which are listed by Schnapper with an earlier date are also listed here.

The origin of the genetic code.

A new approach to the origin of the genetic code is proposed based on some regularities in the nucleotide distribution pattern of the code. The relative amounts of various amino acids in primitive proteins were possibly different from those in organisms living today. The primordial ratio was supposed to shift to the modern one guided by the action of primitive nucleotides. Each primitive tRNA had a discriminator site and, distinguished from it, an anticodon site. It also postulated that primordially each amino acid could correspond to a wide variety of codons. During the course of the evolutionary change, a selective mechanism worked among the protobionts so that less frequent nucleotides became associated with more abundant amino acids in the primordial conditions,thus finally leading to the present codon catalogue.

Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine in London.

The Library of the Wellcome Institute is devoted to the history of medicine and related sciences. Apart from some 250,000 printed books, it contains about 10,000 manuscripts, half of which are in Oriental languages.In 1970 I was entrusted with describing the Ethiopian manuscripts belonging to this library. There were 34 of them: 17 mostly of religious content and completely unrelated to the interests of the Institute, 16 magical scrolls, and one manuscript mainly of divinatory content. Without constituting medical manuscripts in the strict sense of the term, the scrolls are designed to combat demons and diseases and to keep people in good health. They can be called magico-medical scrolls and belong to the field of ethnomedicine. The scrolls are written in Gə'az with strong Amharic influence. At the suggestion of Dr. F. N. L. Poynter, Director of the Wellcome Institute, the Wellcome Trust decided to donate the first group of manuscripts to the British Museum, to whom 14 were presented in June 1970 and 3 others in June 1971. All these manuscripts have been described by the present writer in the Catalogue of the Ethiopian manuscripts in the British Museum acquired since 1877 (in preparation). The present catalogue notes contain only the description of the 16 scrolls and the divinatory manuscript.

Some Unpublished Knossos Sealings and Sealstones

While engaged in the study of pottery in the apothekai of the Stratigraphical Museum at Knossos in 1962, M. R. Popham discovered two boxes containing eighty-one fragments of clay sealings and five worn and damaged sealstones.The sealstones and sixty-seven of the sealings, those bearing distinguishable impressions, are published in this catalogue. The other fourteen fragments have been omitted; and of those published no photographs are provided here because the material will, it is hoped, appear fully in the volumes of the Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel devoted to the Herakleion Museum collection. The present catalogue is intended as an interim publication and, in particular, as a subscript to M. A. V. Gill's account of the Knossos sealings and their provenience.Of the two boxes in which this material was rediscovered the first came from an apotheke which housed pottery from the Domestic Quarter of the Palace. It contained the sealstones and forty-two of the sealing fragments (nos. I to V and 1 to 42 below). The second containing twenty-five of the sealing fragments (nos. 43 to 67 below) came from an apotheke just north of the Throne Room with pottery originating from the West Quarter of the Palace. Unfortunately the pottery in the apothekai is not an infallible guide to the original provenience of these sealstones and sealings. A few of the latter are duplicated by sealings in the Herakleion Museum of known provenience at Knossos or may be identified as from a particular deposit because a sketch of them appears in Evans's notebooks and/or because they are listed in The Palace of Minos. In fact the evidence tends to suggest that these sealings came from widely scattered proveniences both inside and outside the Palace (cf. BSA lx (1965) 60, and in particular comments on 1, 12, 17, 20, 28, 33, 51, and 52 below).

The Suelta Collection of the University of North Carolina

In the Region de las fiestas for San Isidro's canonization (with its tasa dated Sept. 1, 1622), Lope will describe the seemingly automatic ( "se-movente" ) tramoya which Mira de Amescua had had created for the occasion, then point out that Heron Alejandrino had written of such a tramoya, even though it was "jamás vista en España." Indeed , the tramoya was "tan antigua que hace della memoria Homero en la Ilíada." 23 See Acad, ed., IV, Act II, 57-58. 24JuSt what contemporary poets Lope had in mind for Corintio and "the Greek poet," I am not certain. The first reference may be to Guillen de Castro, in whom Lope praised on another occasion "el vivo ingenio, el rayo, el espíritu ardiente." In speaking of Guillen de Castro, Hurtado y Palencia [Hist, de la lit. esp. (Madrid, 1949), 585] have also commented on 'la energía de un estilo enf ático, a veces algo culterano, con el que buscaba asombrar la imaginación de su público" and "la flojedad en el desarrollo de la acción." The "Greek poet," presumably Aristophanes, would probably represent among Lope's contemporaries, Vélez de Guevara , long known as a dramatist of "comedias de espectáculo." 25 See Pérez Pastor, Bibl. madr., III. u Just who Tirso's enemies were in 1621, los que envidian sus obras," is one of the very complicated problems in his theatre. I shall have to leave discussion for another occasion. 27Sr. J. de Entrambasaguas ( Una guerra literaria del Siglo de Oro, Lope de Vega y los preceptistas aristotélicos, included in Estudios sobre Lope de Vega, I and II) has given us a superbly documented study of Lope's fight with Suárez de Figueroa and Torres Ramila. I have in manuscript a long study of Tirso's part in that fight. 28See S. G. Morley and C. Bruerton, The Chronology of Lope de Vega's "comedias" (N.Y., 1940), 198. They date it "ca. 1608." ^^t#«7^v The Suelta Collection of the University of North Carolina Raymond R. MacCurdy The University of New Mexico For a number of years the University of Norm Carolina has made a concerted effort to build up one of the finest collections of Spanish and Catalan drama in the United States. Its library now contains over twenty-five thousand separately printed plays, the great majority of which were published after 1830, although almost two thousand were printed before that date. Most of these are sueltas of seventeenth - and eighteenth-century comedias . William A. McKnight, with the collaboration of Mabel Barrett Jones, has just issued A Catalogue of "comedias sueltas" in the Library of the University of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Library Studies, Number 4 (Chapel Hill, 1965). The price of this volume of 240 pages is $4.00. The catalogue contains 1911 entries (not separate titles), some of which refer to different editions of the same play. Duplicates of the same edition, however, are not included in the total number of entries. The titles are listed alphabetically (not under individual audiors ) , but an index of authors is included at the end making it possible to locate easily the titles ascribed to each author. Each edition is given a separate item number, and the usual publication data—place and date of publication and the name of the printer —are supplied when known. The numbering of the signatures and pages is given to facilitate the proper identification of each edition. The first and last lines of each edition are also given. 34 My impression is that the collection contains some rare and interesting items. A few years ago when I was preparing an edition of Rojas Zorrilla's La vida en el ataúd, I searched in Spanish and other European libraries for manuscripts and sueltas of the play but found none. If the copy listed in the present catalogue is indeed a suelta and not pages torn from the volume in which the play was first printed (Parte 32 of the Comedias escogidas), it is a rare item indeed. Comediantes are indebted to Professor McKnight and Mrs. Jones for their fine work. Not only...

Early Islamic Glass Weights and Measures in Muntaza Palace, Alexandria

During a residence in Alexandria ten years ago as Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in Islamic Archaeology at the University of Alexandria, arrangements were kindly made through the Dean of the Faculty for me to examine a collection of Arabic glass weights and pharmaceutical measure stamps formerly in the royal collection and preserved in Muntaza Palace. Between January 18 and 30, 1954, I made several visits to the palace and took notes on all the glass objects in the collection. The majority were of the Fatimid and Mamluk periods, but 74 pieces were of the earlier period, that is of the 8th and early 9th centuries A.D., and it is these that are described in the following pages. I was unable to photograph these objects, but in most cases I made pencil rubbings and of course recorded diameters and weights. Attached by glue to all the pieces were bits of paper with letters and numbers, and these original inventory numbers are reproduced after the metrological data in the present catalogue. It should be observed that the weight of these scraps of paper and the glue, which I was not permitted to remove from the objects, adds one or perhaps two hundredths of a gram to the true weight of these specimens. While this collection is not a particularly large or outstanding one, it will be noted that there are no less than 22 hitherto unpublished pieces, and in any case the addition of all these pieces, with their recorded weights, to the corpus of early Arabic metrological objects, is of sufficient importance to warrant their publication. The following abbreviations are used in referring to published specimens : BM: Stanley Lane-Poole, Catalogue of Arabic Glass Weights in the British Museum (London, 1891). CAM I: George C. Miles, Contributions to Arabic Metrology, I: Early Arabic Glass Weights and Measure Stamps Acquired by the American Numismatic Society, ig^i-ig^6 (Numismatic Notes a d Monographs, No. 141, New York, 1958). CAM II: George C. Miles, Contributions to Arabic Metrology, II: Early Arabic Glass Weights and Measure Stamps in the Benaki Museum, Athens, and the Peter Ruthven Collection, Ann Arbor (Numismatic Notes and Monographs, No. 150, New York, 1963). Dudzus, 1961: Wolfgang Dudzus, Friihe umayyadische Glasstempel aus Agypten mit Beamtennamen in den Berliner Forschungen und Berichte, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 3/4, Berlin, 1961, pp. 18-24. Dudzus, Festschrift Kiihnel: Umayyadische glaserne Gewichte und Eichstempel aus Agypten in den Berliner Museen, Aus der Welt der islamischen Kunst, Festschrift fur Ernst Kiihnel (Berlin, 1959), pp. 275-282. EAG: George C. Miles, Early Arabic Glass Weights and Stamps (Numismatic Notes and Monographs, No. in, New York, 1948). EAG SuppL: George C. Miles, Early Arabic Glass Weights and Stamps: A Supplement (N mismatic Notes and Monographs, No. 120, New York, 195 1).

A Catalogue of Radio Sources Between Declinations ?50° and ?80°

A catalogue has been prepared of the radio sources observed between declinations -50� and -80�, using the Sydney cross-type radio telescope at a wavelength of 3�5 m; a total of 219 sources is listed. This supplements the earlier catalogues for the declination ranges +10� to -20� and -20� to -50�. In addition to the positions and intensities of the sources, angular sizes of 42 of the strongest sources are given. As before, identifications with bright optical objects have been sought, and a number of possible identifications with emission nebulae and bright galaxies are listed. Because of the small area of sky covered by the present catalogue, the numbers of sources are small (compared with those in our earlier catalogues) so that the statistical analysis of their distribution has comparatively low weight.

Preliminary General Catalogue of Comets

VOL. 1, No. 4 of Publications of the Kwasan Observatory contains a catalogue of comets from the year 467 B.C. to the year A.D. 1936. The number of comets listed is 467, and in each case the best available orbit with its reference source is given. The present catalogue is the revision of a catalogue published in 1931 by Prof. Issei Yamamoto in the Astronomical Yearbook of the Oriental Astronomical Association, printed in Japanese. This revised edition of the catalogue by his son, Prof. A. S. Yamamoto, who contributes a preface in English, will be very useful to all students of cometary orbits. A more comprehensive general catalogue is in course of preparation by these authors.

University and Educational Intelligence

UNDER the auspices of the Council of the Library Association, the Athenaeum Press has issued a Subject Index to Periodicals for 1916, the Historical, Political, and Economic Sciences, including the European war, geography, anthropology, and folklore. The catalogue is well arranged, and contains a wide survey of periodical literature. Owing to the high cost of printing and paper, the list of periodicals cited has been omitted, but in the present list 305 publications are indexed. The present catalogue can be regarded as only tentative, the Proceedings of some societies being in arrear, and most of those from the Continent unprocurable. But the idea is good, and in quieter times the catalogue will be more comprehensive.

Catalogue of the Described Diptera from South Asia

COMPARATIVELY few entomologists interest themselves in Diptera, and therefore the number of species of the order enumerated in the present catalogue is only 2889, and doubtless represents only a small percentage of those actually existing in the rich fauna which it samples; for the Diptera are probably the third most numerous order of insects, surpassed only, according to the indications of our present knowledge, by the Hymenoptera and Coleoptera in the total number of species which they may be expected to include. Prof. Van der Wulp is recognised as one of our first living authorities on Diptera, and his work will prove of great use to specialists, especially as M. Bigot's “Catalogue of the Diptera of the Oriental Region,” published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1891 and 1892, is both imperfect and inaccurate. The introductory part of the work is written in English, and includes a “Review of the Literature of Oriental Dipterology” and a bibliographical list of books and papers consulted. There is also a table of contents at the beginning, and an index of families and genera at the end. We cannot have too many books of this description; for although the number of undescribed species of insects is enormous, it is perhaps even more important to attempt to keep pace with the rapidly-accumulating mass of descriptive matter by means of carefully compiled monographs and synonymic reference catalogues, than to confine our energies to piling up additional descriptions by the hundred or the thousand. Catalogue of the Described Diptera from South Asia. By F. M. Van der Wulp. 8vo. Pp. 220. Published by the Dutch Entomological Society. (The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1896.)

Our Asronomical Column

THE PARIS CATALOGUE.—The first two volumes of the great work undertaken by Leverrier a third of a century ago,—the re-observation of the stars of Lalande's catalogue,—have recently been published. The first volume contains the first instalment of the catalogue, viz. stars from oh. to 6h. of R. A. observed during the years 1837 to 1881, whilst the second gives the separate observations. That this great undertaking has advanced so far towards completion is chiefly owing to the energy which has characterized the Paris Observatory under the directorship of Admiral Mouchez, and to the strength it has derived from the School of Practical Astronomy which was for several years connected with it. When Admiral Mouchez succeeded to the direction in 1878, barely one-third of the necessary observations had been secured, and the annual number of observations obtained was only about 6000 or 7000, a total which, however considerable in itself, was very inadequate in view of the 300,000 required to complete the original programme of a minimum of three observations in each element for the 47,390 stars of Lalande's catalogue. The gift by M. Bischoffsheim of the fine Eichens meridian-circle, and the assistance furnished by the pupils of the astronomical school have, however, raised the yearly average to 25,000 or 28,000 observations, and rendered it possible to commence the publication of results. As the observations include not only those made since Leverrier became Director, but also some 20,000 or 30,000 made between 1837 and 1854, under Arago's superintendence, but left unreduced by him, they have been divided into three periods, viz. 1837–53, 1854–67, and 1868–81, and severally reduced to the mean epochs 1845, 1860, or 1875. Observations subsequent to 1881, about one-fourth of the entire number, will be published separately, and a separate supplementary catalogue will also be formed of those stars which it has been found necessary to re-observe owing to the disproportion between the number of observations secured in the two elements, due to the R.A.'s in so many cases having been observed with the transit instrument, whilst the declinations were taken with the mural circle, the transit circles having been erected only in 1863 and 1877 respectively. The present section of the catalogue contains 7245 stars, and represents about 80,000 observations in both elements. It gives for each of the three periods the number of observations, the mean date, the R.A. and N.P.D. reduced to the mean epoch, and a comparison with Lalande. The precessions for 1875 are also added. The introduction, by M. Gaillot, who has superintended the reduction, contains a discussion of the probable errors of the observations, and is followed by a comparison of the present catalogue with Auwers' Bradley, and an important investigation by M. Bossert of the proper motions of a large number of stars, followed by a table of errors in Lalande's catalogue, which the present and other catalogues have brought to light.