“After some saving and some borrowing, and mainly a mortgage on the lot, we built a little frame cottage where my mother, my wife, and I went to live. Those were happy days, though the struggle for a livelihood was a hard one, with working from early to late for a bare sustenance (and the hope of paying off the mortgage), and sitting up all the rest of the twenty-four hours, hunting for comets. “We could only look forward with dread to the meeting of the notes that must come due. However, when the first note was due a faint comet was discovered wandering along the outskirts of creation, and the money went to meet the payments, and this continued after we had gone to other scenes. The faithful comet, like the goose that laid the golden egg, conveniently timed its appearance to coincide with the advent of those dreaded notes. And thus it finally came about that the house was built entirely of comets. This fact goes to prove the great error of those scientific men who figure out that a comet is but a flimsy affair after all, infinitely more rare than the breath of the morning air, for here was a strong compact house, albeit a small one, built entirely out of them. True, it took several good-sized comets to do it, but it was done, nevertheless.” In connection with the prize offered by Dr. H. H. Warner, Professor W. H. Brooks discovered twenty comets; Barnard, nineteen, as already stated; Perrine, thirteen; and Swift, eleven. Awarding this prize was given up after a while, but the idea was again revived by a wealthy American, the late Mr. J. M. Donohoe, in the year 1890, with the result that a bronze medal is now presented to the discoverer of any new comet, on the report of a committee of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. There were two awards for the year 1923. Comet A was discovered independently by Sr. Dr. Arturo Bernard, Colmenarejo, Madrid, Spain, on October 11, 1923; and by Alexander D. Dubiago, of Kasan, Russia, on October 14, 1923. The medal was awarded to each of these two discoverers. On November 10, 1923, Mr. W. Reid, of Rondebosch, South Africa, who has been awarded several of the medals for his discoveries of comets, added another to his list of captures.