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FOR several months past I have anxiously considered how I could best discharge the honourable duty which has been intrusted to me this evening. I have to deliver an astronomical discourse, and to do my very utmost to make that discourse adequate to the subject, adequate to this large and cultivated audience, and adequate to the memorable occasion on which the British Association has first crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
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Comets 1 . Nature 30, 454–457 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030454a0
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