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comets which might be included in a list with the adjective "remarkable" attached to it are very numerous; and I shall for the most part treat the word "remarkable" as applying rather to naked-eye peculiarities and splendour than to physical peculiarities revealed only by the use of the telescope. I must therefore limit myself to a selection, premising that Grant included the following as proper to be classed as "remarkable":—

1066

1106

1145

1265

1378

1402

1456

1531

1556

1577

1607

1618

1661

1680

1682

1689

1729

1744

1759

1769

1811

1823

1835

1843

1858

1861

Grant's list was, if I remember right, put forth in a lecture which he gave at the Royal Institution in 1870, and the additions which should be made to it to represent the period 1870-1909 are singularly few, the chief of them being the Comet of 1874 (iii.), best known as Coggia's Comet; and the Comets of 1881 (iii.), and 1882 (iii.); but the large comets which appeared in the Southern hemisphere in 1880 (i.), 1887 (i.), and 1901 (i.) have some claim to notice. By the