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KNOWLEDGE • 



[Sept. 28, 1883. 



VAST SUN - SPOTS, &c. {See opposite page.) 



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Transit of Venus, 1882. 



Apparent Size and General Appearance of Venu3, as seen projected 

 on a Screen. 



Aperture, 3 inches. Focal length, 45 inches. Power 80. 



(The " Ligament " was glimpsed as a dusky band. Did not obeerye 

 any central bright spot.) 



April 10, 1S82, 3.30 p.m. 



Vast Solar Spot of April, 1882 (accompanied with an 

 intense Magnetic Storm). 



Extreme length, 2' 0". Mean breadth, C 45". 

 .'. Area = ± 1,0'J3, 500,000 square miles. 



Nov. 15, 1882, 10.47 .\.M 

 30^ r 



Nov. 19, 1882, 10.20 a.m. 



Nov. 21, 1882, 10-50 A.M. 



30" I 



Huge Solar Spot of November, 18.^2 (accompanied with an intense Magnetic Storm). 



Extreme length, 2' 12" Extreme length, 3' 10" 



Mean breadth, 1' 30" Mean breadth, 1' 30" 



.•. Area = ± 2,405,700,000 square miles. Area ± 3,462,750,000 square miles ! 



Extreme length, 2' 0" 

 Mean breadth, 1' 30" 

 Area ± 2,187,000,000 square miles. 



or for fostering the lives of offspring (alike in quantity and 

 fulness), are often inconsistent with the corresponding 

 adjustments of others. The development by evolution of 

 conduct tending to the advancement of individual lives or 

 lives of offspring would of itself tend constantly to acts 

 inconsistent with the wellbeing or even with the existence 

 of others, were it not for the development (also brought 

 about, as we have seen, by processes of evolution) of con- 

 duct tending to the increase of the quantity and fulness of 

 life in the community. But there arises a constant conflict 

 between tendencies to opposite lines of conduct. It is so 

 essential for the welfare of the community that tendencies 

 to advance the life interests of self and children should be 

 in due subordination (which is not the same thing be it 



noticed, as complete subordination) to tendencies leading 

 to the furtherance of the fulness of life in others, that 

 rules of conduct towards others than self or children have 

 to be emphatic and peremptory in tone. Hence it is, as 

 Mr. Spencer justly remarks, that the words good and bad 

 have come to be specially associated with acts which 

 [respectively] further the complete living of others and 

 acts which obstruct their complete living. 



(To be continued.) 



During fourteen days, recently, five accident; witb 

 hydraulic lifts occurred in the City, by which four persons- 

 lost their lives. 



