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128 lady member of a well-known German astronomical family, Fräulein Margaretha Kirch.

De Chéseaux has left the following description (translated from the French) of this comet:—

De Chéseaux goes on to make some comments which seem rather intended as a reply to certain persons who had criticised unfavourably the idea that the object which they had been looking at was really a comet. After referring