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in the brightness of comets’ tails and of his own corona, and having 
spoken of the chemistry of the sun, declared that the lesson of the 
whole, if there was one, was that the cosmos from its stars to the 
dust of the earth, from the huge sun and the still larger stellar orbs 
to the smallest vagrant comet, is the development of one design, the 
operation of one law. 
On the 5th of February Mr. Andrew Elvins, past president, read 
a paper entitled “Notes on World Formation by Accretion,” and 
a paper was read from Mr. W. F. Denning, I’.R.A.S., a corresponding 
Fellow of the Society, residing in Bristol, England, on “ The Planet 
Jupiter and his Markings.” 
The open meeting on the 19th of February was given up to 
popular papers on “Taurus and the Pleiades,’ by Mr. John A. 
Paterson, M.A., past president; on “The Spring Constellations,” by 
the Rev. Robert Atkinson; on “ The Zodiacal Light,” by Mr. Andrew 
Elvins, and on “ The Belt of Great Stars from Sirius to Vega,’ and 
“The Milky Way, its Clusters, Nebulæ and Coalsacks,” by the pres- 
ident. 
On the 2nd of March, Dr. Larratt Smith, formally presented his 
telescope and received an address from the Society, which had, in the 
meantime, elected him a “ Patron of Astronomy.” 
At the meeting of the 5th of March, Mr. A. F. Miller, the 
president, the Rev. Robert Atkinson and others made reports with 
respect to the new star in Perseus, which was first seen on the 22nd 
of February. 
At the open meeting on the 19th of March, Mr. George Ridout 
Gescribed his courteous reception by Sir Robert Ball, on the occasion 
of his recent visit to the Observatory at Cambridge University. Mr. 
Arthur Harvey read a paper on “ Synchronism of Northern and Sou- 
thern Aurore,” with especial reference to the reports of Mr. Henryk 
Arctowski, Meteorologist of the Belgica Antarctic Expedition. Mr. Z. 
M. Collins also read a paper on “Theories of the Aurora,’ and a 
series of short papers relative to the Planet Mars was read by Capt. 
J. G. Ridout, Mr. John Phillips, Mr. J. H. Weatherbe, and the pres- 
ident. Mr. Weatherbe described how the apparent loops of the 
planets on the sky may be observed and plotted. 
On the 2nd of April, Mr. R. F. Stupart, F.R.S.C., and first vice- 
president, read a paper on “Sun Spots and Precipitation,” in which 
he stated that it is conceivable that a varying solar heat radiation 
during a sun-spot cycle may cause appreciable changes in the move- 
ments of high and low pressure areas, changes perhaps largely influ- 
enced and governed by a fluctuating intensity and position of the 
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