i 3 2 SCIENCE PROGRESS 



the path of the observer and so paved the way for a description 

 of the detail which patient attention has disclosed ; this will be 

 given in a later article. 



This preliminary discussion is needful because of the weird 

 oddity and utter strangeness of the features discovered ; unless 

 attested by methods of proven accuracy these would be quite 

 incredible and therefore liable to be regarded as the tricks of 

 fancy rather than as the discoveries of painstaking research. 



