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SIR THOMAS BRISBANE on Two new Comets 



This Comet is evidently the same as that which was first dis- 

 covered in Europe on the 23d of July by M. SCHEITHAMMER of 

 Chemnitz, and the elements of which, as computed by CAPOCCI, 

 CARLINI, and ENCKE, have been published in the Edinburgh 

 Journal of Science, vol. ii. p. 171, 172., and vol. iii., where the la- 

 test elements are given, upon the hypothesis of a hyperbolic or- 

 bit, which has been found by M. ENCKE to represent the obser- 

 vations better than a parabolic one. D. B. 



1824, 

 July 28. Comet south, preceding t Leonis, diff. in M = 24' 31 ",30 ; diff. in declin. 



= 21' 57",61. 

 29. Comet north, following Leonis, diff. in M = 27' 46",30; diff. in declin. 



= 17' 43' x ,12. 



31. Comet south, preceding anonymous star of the 7th magnitude, Jl of the 

 star = 168 35' 37",50, and the declination 18 6' 6",30 North ; diff. in 

 M = 17' 31",30; diff. in declination = 1^ 29",05. 



Aug. 1. Comet north, following another anonymous star of 7th magnitude, Jt of 

 the star = 168 47' 40",80 ; declination = 18 18' * 03",37 ; diff. in M 

 = 14' 18",0 ; diff. in decL = & 11",19. 

 3. Comet north, following 86 Leonis, diff. in M = 4f 0",80 ; diff. in decl. 



In the original it is inserted 18 80' 03",37. It probably should have been 18 18' 3",37. 

 gives 18 27' 14",56 for the north declination, as in the Table. 



This 



