Bond that the comet was seen by Miss Mitchell on the 1st instant.

This notice appeared in the "Nachrichten" of Dec.

9, 1847, and the priority of Miss Mitchell's discovery was immediately admitted throughout Europe.
My attention had been drawn to the subject of the king of Denmark's comet medal by some allusion to it in my correspondence with Professor Schumacher, in reference to the discovery of telescopic comets by Mr.
George P.Bond, of the observatory at Cambridge.

Having learned some weeks after Miss Mitchell's discovery that no communication had been made on her behalf to the trustees of the medal, and aware that the regulations in this respect were enforced with strictness, I was apprehensive that it might be too late to supply the omission.

Still, however, as the spirit of the regulations had been complied with by Mr.
Mitchell's letter to Mr.Bond of the 3d of October, it seemed worth while at least to make the attempt to procure the medal for his daughter.