When the news of Herr Wolf’s success in obtaining a photograph of the comet had been announced on September 12, it was followed on September 15 by a message from the Lick Observatory to the effect that a photograph of the comet had been obtained by Dr. Heber D. Curtis with the aid of the Crossley reflector. On Wednesday morning, September 15, Professor S. W. Burnham of the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wisconsin, sighted Halley’s comet by means of the great refractor with its forty-inch lens, while at the same time it was photographed with the two-foot reflector in an adjacent dome, by Dr. Oliver J. Lee. The comet was again detected by Professor Burnham the following morning, September 16, and it was also registered on the photographic plate by Dr. Lee. Then came the morning of September 17, one of the most eventful in the life of the writer, who had arrived the previous day as the guest of the Barnards. That night the great refractor with its forty-inch lens was in the care of Professor Barnard, who courteously invited the writer to come to the observatory the next morning at 3 A.M., escorted by his niece, Miss Calvert, for the purpose of looking through the telescope and obtaining a view of Halley’s comet. Making a first visit to the observatory in the darkness preceding dawn was an experience in itself, but the glimpse of the comet after its absence of seventy-five years is one never to be forgotten, nor is it easy to describe. For the first second or so, all seemed darkness as I gazed down the length of that great tube (63½ feet) into the opening beyond. I saw nothing, and an intense feeling of disappointment overwhelmed me as I realized and stated this fact, but Professor Barnard remarked in his whimsical way: “Surely you did not expect to see the comet with a tail?” Then he advised me to keep on looking, and even while he spoke I saw a faint, very misty outline. “Is it exactly in the center of the field of view?” queried Professor Barnard when I told him that I had seen a nebulous-looking object, and when I replied in the negative, he informed me that that faint object I was looking at _was the comet_, which eight months later I saw in all its splendor from the tower at the top of the _Times_ Building in New York City.