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Reiiaeks. 
(a.) Length of visible tail to the naked eye 12° 12'. 
( l .) Visible tail 27° 50' ; clear night. 
(c.) Visible tail 12°. 
(d.) Nucleus less bright but looming as large. 
(e.) Visible tail 8°. 
( f ) Visible tail 6° ; cloudy night, the worst observations of 
the series. 
(y.) Visible tail 6° ; comet generally much more indistinct. 
(7i.) Visible tail 3° ; very faint and difficult to observe. 
(i.) Little or no tail, clear night. 
Latitude 21-51 — 45 N. b N. B. — Mean Time was used through- 
> out. The centre of the Nucleus was 
Longitude 88-08 — 15 E. ) always measured. 
In another letter Mr. Obbard describes the appearance of another 
Comet observed in the Southern Hemisphere. He states— 
“ I beg to draw the attention of the Society to the following 
report of a Comet having been observed in the Southern Hemisphere, 
which has not, to the best of my knowledge, been noticed before. 
The extract for which I am indebted to Captain Hill, first Assistant 
to the Master Attendant, is copied verbatim on the other side, with 
this exception, that the correction for variation of the compass has 
been applied to convert the magnetic into true bearings. The speed 
with which the Comet must have travelled through the heavens 
appears most extraordinary, but from the entire absence of observa- 
tions, the following report will only serve as a mere record of its 
appearance. 
American Ship Rival, F. Hatch, Master, from Liverpool, bound to 
Calcutta, 1861. 
Mag 307/t, 5 A. M. — Saw a beautiful Comet bearing South South 
East. True-judged altitude 10", latitude 25 32' S., longitude 22-53' W. 
June 1 4 tJi. — Saw it again at 4 A. M., bearing East, Latitude 38° 
08' S., Longitude 19° 26' E., measured altitude 19- 25'. 
June 16 th. — At 4 a. m. saw it again bearing N. E. by E., judged 
altitude 30°, the tail 15° long and a little curved. 
June 28 th. — At about 3-30 a. m. saw it again. Latitude 33-01 S., 
Longitude 62-13 E., the tail much bushed (P). It was very cloudy all 
the time and stormy with a heavy sea.” 
