Mr.Mitchell is a member of the executive council of Massachusetts and a most respectable person.
"As the claimant is a young lady of great diffidence, the place a retired island, remote from all the high-roads of communication; as the conditions have not been well understood in this country; and especially as there was a substantial compliance with them--I hope His Majesty may think Miss Maria Mitchell entitled to the medal.
"Cambridge, 24th January, 1848.
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EVERETT TO CAPTAIN W.H.SMYTH, R.N., LATE PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, LONDON, DATED CAMBRIDGE, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1848.
"I have lately been making interest with Mr.Schumacher to cause the king of Denmark's medal to be given to Miss Mitchell for the discovery of the comet to which her name has been given, if I mistake not, in the journal of your society as well as in the 'Nachrichten.' She unquestionably discovered it at half-past ten on the evening of the 1st of October; it was not, I think, seen in Europe till the 3d.

Her father, on the 3d, wrote a letter to Mr.Bond, the director of our observatory, informing him of this discovery; and this letter was sent by the first mail that left the little out-of-the-way island (Nantucket) after the discovery.

The _spirit_ of the regulations was therefore complied with.
But as the _letter_ requires that the notice should be given either to the Danish minister resident in the country or to Mr.Airy, if the discovery is made elsewhere than on the continent of Europe, it is possible that some demur may be made.

The precise terms of the regulations have not been sufficiently made known in this country.