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III. COMETS During the past ten years we have been favoured with an extraordinary number of comets, and while perhaps no single great step has been made, yet it is certain, I think, that our knowledge of these mysterious objects has gained a real and considerable advance.
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"Ten Years' Progress in Astronomy, 1876–86," by Prof. C. A. Young . Read May 17, 1886, before the New York Academy of Sciences. Continued from p. 98.
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Ten Years' Progress in Astronomy 1 . Nature 35, 117–119 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/035117a0
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