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Could WW write a notice of Coddington to include in the Annual Report of the Astronomical Society. ADM is to write the Report with two objectives: Firstly to 'get the biographies a little more full than they used to be', and secondly, 'that unless we can get all our fellows to interest themselves, we stand a good chance of losing our existence. Every person who can be quoted as having done any work for us is strength just now, when Baily's [Francis Baily] loss has thrown us upon ourselves'.