William Herschel discovered NGC 3714 = H III-353 = h907 on 11 Apr 1785 (sweep 396) and noted "eF but doubtful. I tried to verify it, but could not succeed." His re-reduced position is 38 sec of RA east of UGC 6516, but matches in declination and JH measured a fairly accurate position on 3 sweeps (given in the GC and NGC). There was a misprint in the PT catalogue of 10 tmin from the offset star, so Auwers questioned the identity of III-353.

400/500mm - 17.5" (4/9/99): very faint, very compact galaxy ~20" in diameter, brightens somewhat to center. Picked up at 100x along with brighter NGC 3713 located 13' SSW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb