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a thousand kilograms of water one degree. And this is always going on. Even 

 a small quantity of radium diffused through the earth will suffice to keep up 

 its temperature against all loss by radiation! If the sun consists of a fraction 

 of one per cent, of radium, this will account for and make good the heat that 

 is annually lost by it." 



' This is a tremendous fact, upsetting all the calculations of physicists as to 

 the duration in past and future of the sun's heat and the temperature of the 

 earth's surface." 



Again, with almost childlike glee, he says: " The kind of conceptions to 

 which these and like discoveries have led the modern physicist in regard to the 



THE DUKE OF ARGYLL 

 President B. A. S. (1855). 



character of that supposed unbreakable body — the chemical atom, the simple 

 and unaffected friend of our youth — are truly astounding." 



With the utmost frankness the President announces that the accepted 

 botanical theories have been upset by the discovery of true spermatozoa in 

 a certain Gymnosperm, and that higher as well as lower plants are fer- 

 tilized by spermatozoa. With joyous candor, Dr. Lankester supports the 

 Metschnikoff school in further treatment of stimulating the phagocytes in the 

 blood to enable them to resist the germs of infection; and the startling fact that 

 " alcohol, opium, and even quinine, hinder the phagocytic action, and that 



