Edward Cary 



nence. But he cherished the hope 

 of completing an authoritative study 

 of the physics of the early globe, 

 on which he spent much time and 

 labor and money. He undertook a 

 series of difficult and elaborate ex- 

 periments to determine the action of 

 the primal constituents of the early 

 globe under the conditions of heat 

 and pressure assumed to exist, when 

 the material of the earth was sepa- 

 rated from the sun. These were 

 interrupted by business reverses and 

 ill health some eight years since : 

 but he had gone far enough in his 

 investigations to make a reasoned 

 estimate of the age of the earth, 

 which was accepted by physicists 

 in England and Europe, Lord Kelvin 

 among them, as more nearly defin- 

 itive than any other. 



What King might have been had 

 he turned to literature is shown in 

 his scientific studies and reports, 

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