Illustrations
Reading edition
PROFESSOR E. E. BARNARD Frontispiece
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DAYLIGHT COMET 1910 A 8
THE COMET-SEEKER ON THE ROOF OF THE YERKES OBSERVATORY, AT WILLIAMS BAY, WISCONSIN 18
COMET OF DONATI 42
PHOTOGRAPH OF MOREHOUSE COMET, 1908 C 68
JOHN TEBBUTT, NOTED COMET-HUNTER OF WINDSOR, N. S. W. 70
THE GREAT DAYLIGHT COMET, SEPTEMBER, 1882 80
PHOTOGRAPH OF A BRIGHT METEOR, BY DR. W. J. S. LOCKYER 84
COMET 1893 IV BROOKS 92
HALLEY’S COMET AND THE PLANET VENUS 94
HALLEY’S COMET 110
COMET 1861, JULY 2, AS SEEN AND DRAWN BY R. A. PROCTOR 118
HALLEY’S COMET 124
THE ORBIT OF HALLEY’S COMET 126
THE SOUTHERN COMET OF JANUARY, 1887 144
OUTH LODGE, KEITHICK, WHERE THE STRATHMORE METEORITE FELL THROUGH THE ROOF, DECEMBER 3, 1917 200
STRATHMORE METEORITE, ESSENDY FRAGMENT 202
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