3 2 5 '349 326

r ; j 2 3 3 j . 3 14, 2 3 4 5 . S 1 5 1 2 3 ;ti 9

171 o 2 0 . g 181 0 33.6 rc) i o 46.6 2 0 ' I 0 . 1 2 1 I 1 3 . 7

I G ~ o S.j

:!.4G

2 . j $ J

2 . 6 2

2.53

2 . 3 2

2 . 0 3

'Ihe coniet is thcrcfore identical with the one discovered by Mr. Lewis swift as tekgraphcd froin .'imc.rica.

Kotliing seems to haye bccii swii of tlic comet ii: Europe prior to Xovcnibcr 7 tli"), iior was anything hrtlier heard froiii &-Imcrica bcforc thc above computations were coiiiplcted. To-day, howcver, ii lctter was rcceivccl :ram Mr. Edward I?. Harnard of Nashvillc, Tenncssce, dated I 880 Octbr. 30. in which that geiitlenIan says rc jpecting Ilic con12t :

, I detern:iiied its position oii the 2 I uiicl 32 ivitli rinb'-iiiicrorn~t2r. Position Oct. 2 I at 12~117111 G. 31. T. K. A 2 1 ~ 1 4 2 :111,

moving in a north-rcrstevly direction. I \ in. finder.'

Dcc. + 25'' I '

> D 23 t I j 27 Y 3 1 44 3' ,> + 2G 2

It is large, diffusxi and pcrfectly transparent. On 24 it was visible in my

") S. c1ageg.n die Odessner 13eolnslltungeii aiif G. 329. Aiiiw dcr 12rd. 21 _- -

3 2 7 2349 328

I

The following was also received today : Smithsonian telegram Swift telegraphs Lohse's coniet discovered by me October I o identical with

comet third eighteen hundred sixty nine. ) A comparison of the above approximate elements with those computed by Professor Hruhns for Comet 111

18% renders an identity in the highest degree probable, especially as the descriptions of that object accord with what is now visible. Kn/ph C'ol)elnn~f.

3: G. L O h S E .

Lord Lindsay's Observatory, Dun Echt, I 880 November I 3.

Kochester (U.S.); Octbr. 10 j 211130"' .+IS" 'Swift

Nlemente iiiitl El)licineridc des Cometen Swift (e 1880). Von K. ZeIh und Dr. 3: v. Hepperger.

C i r c u l a r d e r K. Alcademie d. W. i n W i e n . Uis zum Sc1i:usse der Kechnuiig waren folgende Ikobachtungen eingelaiifen :

1 O r t , 1880 imittl.Ortsz.1 app. t l & 1 app. d & Heobachter

Swift's Coiuet (el 1880, and its identity wit11 Coinet 111. 1869. I clcsire to communicate elements of the Comet' Helow I place niy elements of Swift's Comet by

discovered by I'rof. Swift on Oct. I Ith, which will i n ;the side of Dr. 13ruhns' elements (.% N. I 788) of Co- all probability prove to be periodic, the resenib1;~ncc of met 111. 1869. the elenients to those of Comet 111. 186g appearing re- markable.