[394] In reading this chapter the reader is recommended to have a Star Atlas beside him for reference; Proctor’s smaller Star Atlas will be found very convenient for this purpose. On the title-page of this useful work the author quotes Carlyle’s words, “Why did not somebody teach me the constellations and make me at home in the starry heavens which are always overhead, and which I don’t half know to this day?”
[395] Bedford Catalogue, p. 29.
[396] Cosmos, vol. iii. p. 87.
[397] Heavenly Display, 579-85.
[398] Bedford Catalogue, p. 385.
[399] Lalande’s Astronomie, vol. iv. p. 529.
[400] Lalande’s Astronomie, vol. i. pp. 268-9.
[401] Primitive Constellations, vol. i. p. 48.
[402] Bedford Catalogue, pp. 27, 28.
[403] Lalande’s Astronomie, vol. iv. p. 492.