Guillaume Bigourdan discovered NGC 4883 = Big. 67 on 16 May 1885. His Comptes Rendus position (nearest min of dec) is 45" too far northeast. Dreyer (as well as Wolfgang Steinicke) credits d'Arrest with the discovery (on 22 Apr 1865), but I can't identify his observation in his compilation Siderum Nebulosorum.

400/500mm - 17.5" (4/21/90): located in the central core of AGC 1656 4.4' NW of NGC 4889 and 6.4' NE of NGC 4874. Very faint, very small, round. Mag 7.2 SAO 82595 5.4' WNW hinders observation of this galaxy.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb