Excerpt from The Story of the Comets: Simply Told for General Readers

I have to thank various friends for advice and assistance in making the book more useful than it would have been without such advice and assistance, in particular, Mr. A. C. D. Crommelin, b.a., Of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and Mr. W. E. Rolston, of the Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensington, and Mr. D. Smart, whilst as regards the illustrations I owe thanks to the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society, toiv Preface.

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