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March 18, 1907.

Exam of plates for variation if any in +48° 150 [[strikethrough]] 5 [strikethrough]] 4
R.A. 7^[[h]] 7.3^[[m]], Dec. +48° 45.6' 9.0 {1855). Sp. Mc5d var? No. 5855 on I33840.

[[3 column table]]
|Plate|Date|Ex.|
|I28835|Jan. 25 1902|10^[[m]]|
|I26313|Dec. 24 1900|10|
|I22029|Dec. 24 1898|10|
|I17150|Jan. 19 1897|27|
|I3427|April 21 1891|   |
|I3216|March 1 1891|   |
|I10310|Dec. 26 1893|   |
|I20398|March 8 1898|10|
|I22405|Feb. 23 1899|10|
|I24550|Feb. 5 1900|58|
|I2239|Nov. 12 1890|   |
|I27606|Sept. 26 1901|
|I33582|Oct. 27 1905|19|
|I23558|Sept. 26 1899|19|
|I24910|March 21 1900|10|
|I5632|Feb. 13 1892|10|
|I10562|Jan. 25 1894|   |[[strikethrough]]4[[/strikethrough]]|
|I5501|Feb. 1 1892|   |
|I5056|Dec. 10 1891|   |
|I17342|Feb. 16 1897|16|
|I774|March 7 1890|4|
|I8299|   |   |
|I32684|Feb. 14 1905|   |
[[/3 column table]]
An exam. of the above plates shows a variation of about 0.5 magn. which seems to be real and not due to photographic images.   This variation has been confirmed independently by L.D. Wells.
W.P.F.