• KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



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By HiriiAl:l. A. l'i:n,;) 



I SEE^tliiit some Fello\vs of tl,c Kny;,l .Vstrnnoiuieu 

 Society liavi' been com |il;iiiii)pj' lor ( In- fill iri h t imc 



fur 



!..,■ tl,r 



the iusinu-.ti 



motlier exception to tlio uuiver.sality— or at least, the 

 tocracr— of gravitation." All this is naught. 



'11 if siience will conde- 

 1 t iius, while scarcely 



. s.,11,,1-, to write intel- 



lait the fact that 1 



can he if tin n 

 from the le : 

 ileed true for 

 hody can 



elf i.^ 





■ that their rate ol ( r.inslal ion will ovci'eome the jinll of 

 I lie ncua-est body," though any one who would reply 

 I lins would say anythininf. "But there again," he pro- 



\ I ITT. — Into the grim world of " London by Night," 

 Ml ;. .1 .\n- her has recently made a fresh tour of discovery, 

 :ii: I 111 11. iilud hisimpreBsiona in an article which is to appear in 

 Casscll'.i Majazine for July, with illustrations from a well-knoivn 



The E.iETn's Annual Meteoric Growth. — It is calculated by 

 Dr. Kleiber, of St. rotorsbui-, ili;U t.'.tJO lb. ef meteoric dust fall 



Oil (be eai-lli .-very hnur - ; t " ' — i ;. more than 



only about twenty-live niillioiis of jKiunds anuanUy, which is leas 

 than two ounces annually to eacli square mile of tho earth's snrfaca. 

 — K A. Proctor, in Ncurastle ^Veclily Chrnnich: 



