In this question a ***variety*** means any subset of complex projective space $\mathbb CP^n$ that is the set of common zeroes of a set of homogeneous polynomials. Thus if $A,B\subset{\mathbb C}P^n$ are varieties so is $A\cup B$. Suppose $V_k$ is a sequence of varieties that converge to a subset $V\subset{\mathbb C}P^n$ in the *Hausdorff topology* on closed subsets of ${\mathbb C}P^n$. (This means after choosing a Riemannian metric on ${\mathbb C}P^n$ that given $\epsilon>0$ there is $K$ so that if $k>K$ then $V\subset N_{\epsilon}(V_k)$ and $V_k\subset N_{\epsilon}(V)$ where $N_{\epsilon}(X)$ is an $\epsilon$-neighborhood of $X$)  Also suppose that there is $d$ such that each $V_k$ is the set of common zeroes of some polynomials of degree at most $d$. *Is it true that $V$ is always a variety* ?. This is a theorem of Ed Bishop if the $V_k$ are pure-dimensional.