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It would appear then, if our premises are correct, that 
the directive influence exerted by the cosmical motions of 
the sun and the planets upon any one of these bodies must 
adt to cause all the molecules of that sphere to assume an 
axial direction in accordance with these influences, so that 
the movements of all the molecules of the solar system may 
be in general harmony, the motion of each being a resultant 
of the many directive forces adting upon it. From the 
attradtive influence exerted between all these similarly- 
moving molecules, gravitative attradtion would arise. If 
this be the case the vigour of attradtion arising from the 
movements of the spheres would be exerted upon their 
molecules, in producing conformity of motion, while the 
force of these latter would readt upon each other, and thus 
upon the spheres as wholes, forming the attradtion of gra- 
vitation. 
In regard to the relations of diverse solar or astral sys- 
tems, repulsion may take the place of attradtion, if their 
general motions be reverse to each other, so that the attrac- 
tion of gravitation may not be a universal force, but may be 
neutralised or reversed between different systems. 
II. EXPLORATION IN THE FAR EAST.* 
f INCE the days of Sir T. Stamford Raffles, of Sir James 
Brooke (much maligned of anti-nationalist orators), 
and still more since the publication of Mr. Wallace’s 
fascinating work, it may safely be said that no part of the 
world has so much attradted the attention of naturalists as 
the Eastern Archipelago. The number, the variety, and 
* Der Malayische Archipel. Land und Leute in Schilderungen gesammelt 
wahrend eines dreissig-jahrigen Aufenthaltes in den Kolonien. Von C. B. H. 
von Rosenberg, Konigl. Niederlandisch-Ostindischer Regierung’s-Beamter, 
Ritter hoher Orden, mehrerer gelehrter Gesellschaften Mitglied. Mit zahl- 
reichen Illustrationen zumeist nach den Originalen des Verfassers, und einem 
Vorwort von Professor P. J. Veth, in Leiden. Leipzig : Weigel. Amster- 
dam : De Bussy. London: Triibner and Co. 
(The Malay Archipelago. Land and People in Representations collected 
during a Thirty Years’ Residence in the Colonies. By C. B. H. von Rosen- 
berg, with numerous illustrations from the author’s original sketches, and a 
Preface by Professor P. J. Veth, of Leiden.) 
