THE CENTURY'S PROGRESS IN ASTRONOMY 



purely gaseous stars of more recent discovery, which 

 Professor Pickering had specially studied. Zollner's 

 famous interpretation of these diversities, as indicative 





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of varying stages of cooling, has been called in question 

 as to the exact sequence it postulates, but the general 

 proposition that stars exist under widely varying condi- 

 tions of temperature is hardly in dispute. 



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