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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Of twelve variables known in Messier 56 in Lyra, two, V1 and V6 are the subject of this paper. VI was discovered by Shapley (1920) and first determined by Sawyer Hogg (1942) to be a Cepheid with a period of 1.5 days. V6 was discovered by Sawyer Hogg (1940) from her early plates at the David Dunlap Observatory. Later Sawyer Hogg (1949) showed it to be an RV Tauri type with a period of 90.02 days, one of the first such to be identified in a globular cluster. A.H.Joy (1949) determined spectral type and radial velocity for both of these variables.