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it a fixed point ? Efforts made to reach it ; Condition of things 
at the Pole: as regards the Compass, the Seasons, Day and 
Night, the Rising and Setting of Stars, the Moon, etc. 
Monday, February 24th.—‘‘ The Great Ice Age.” 
Geological evidences of its Existence ; Its Cause—owing to changes 
in ellipticity of the Earth’s Orbit, etc.,; Bearing of the Subject 
on the Age of the Earth. 
Monday, March roth.—‘‘ The Astronomy of ‘ Para- 
dise Lost.’” 
The Astronomy of Milton and Dante compared; The Localities of 
Milton’s Heaven, Hell, Earth, Chaos, etc. ; Milton’s Age a 
period of Transition, hence both the Ptolemaic and Copernican 
Systems given in the Poem; Astronomical Effects of the 
“Fall.” 
Thursday, November 6th.—‘‘ Comets and Shooting 
Stars.” (Illustrated by Lantern Slides.) 
Objects of alarm and supposed portents of calamity in early times 
Orbits of Comets, their Origin and Composition; History of 
the chief recorded Comets, 
Shooting Stars, their Nature, Origin, and Destiny; Aerolites 
Meteor Swarms; November Meteors; connection between 
Comets and Shooting Stars. 
Thursday, November 20th.—“ Astrology.” 
Its History and Antiquity; its relation to Astronomy; references 
to it in the Bible, Shakespeare, Scott, etc.; method of erecting 
a “Horoscope” or ‘ Nativity”; Astrological character of the 
various Planets: Influence of the Heavenly Bodies on the 
Earth ; Astrological Words in our Language; Belief in Astro- 
‘ logy in the Present Day ; its nature and consequences. 
; Thursday, December 4th.—‘‘ Birth, Growth and 
_ Death of Worlds.” (The Nebular Hypothesis.) 
Difference between old and new ideas as to Scientific Method 
theory of Kant and Laplace ; Planets thrown off from Sun,and 
Moons from Planets ; Arguments for and against the Theory ; 
Planets in different stages of Evolution ; Saturn’s Ring; 
