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WITH reference to Prof C. A. Young's Note on the Spectrum of Brorsen's Comet, in NATURE, vol. xix. p. 559, it may be of interest to mention that observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, confirm his conclusion as to the coincidence of the brightest band in the comet spectrum with the green band of carbon.
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CHRISTIE, W. On the Spectrum of Brorsen's Comet. Nature 20, 5 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020005a0
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