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PROF. W. R. BROOKS was one of the most successful of all modern comet-hunters. He nearly equalled the wonderful success of Pons, who found twenty-eight comets in the first twenty-five years of last century. Prof. Brooks's total was twenty-seven comets, but in regard to several of these he was anticipated.
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DENNING, W. Prof. W. R. Brooks. Nature 107, 340 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107340a0
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