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METEOROLOGY 



COMET. 



Corfe Castle, 25th, June, 1860. 



On going out of my house at 10. 45., last night with Mr. 

 Austen and Mr. Bradley, my attention was called by Mr. Austen 

 to a Comet near the horizon, in the N. N. W. 



It was situated so that the nucleus appeared to be a little 

 above a line drawn through alpha and beta AurigcBj its distance 

 to the west of beta Aur., being rather greater than that of beta 

 from alpha Aurigce. The nucleus was not much less brilliant 

 than beta Aur.^ and the tail was distinctly traceable in a vertical 

 direction for about 15''* 



I roughly estimated the position of the nucleus R. A. G'*- 50"*- 

 Dec. 430- N. 



K. E. RICHARDS. 



