I would appreciate any amateur observations (by eye, not CCD or astrophotography) with a 16" class scope (comparable to the 16" refractor at the Rochester Observatory used by Swift, 1893, MNRAS, 53, 273, to discover IC 694) to verify that a galaxy as faint as MCG+10-17-2a can indeed be seen without prior knowledge of its existence. If not, it seems more likely that Swift instead subdivided NGC 3690 into two separate galaxies, with IC 694 referring to the eastern system. Please email me (jhibbard @ nrao.edu) if you make any such observations.