Note on the great Comet of 1861.
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John Tebbutt
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Article
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1878
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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In many of the recent popular works on astronomy I have noticed that frequent references are made to the fact that muropean astronomers have shown that the earth passed through or very near the tail of the areal comet of 1861. As I was not in communication with the European scientific journals at th