Manuscript, 'Account of a comet' by Wm [William] Herschel Herschel gives his account of a new comet first observed on 13 March 1781 in the vicinity of H Geminorum, and provides data from his observations of the comet through March and April 1781. Subject: Astronomy Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Account of a comet'. Written by Herschel at King Street, Bath [Somerset, England]. Read to the Royal Society on 26 April 1781. [1781]