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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...great work of creation is now actually in progress. Here in this cosmic worksho of Lyra are scattered raw materials and finished solar odics; rows of suns ablaze with pristine light, and masses of unformcd vapour, in whose bosom the carbon atoms may be floating vhich in the ripeness of time shall assume forms of beauty and life. There are other spots in the heavens where stars and nebulous matter are mingled in a way what suggests a close relationship, but none 50 remarkable as this discovered by Professor Holden. Even the curious group called the Pleiades, where, as recent photographic discoveries have shown, nebular masses and streams are mingled in the strangest fashion with the stars, there is nothing so remarkable as the concentric rings described by the director of the Lick Observatory. In the constellation of Aquarius there is a small nebula---small, that is, as seen from the earth, though enormously large in reality--which presents the suggestive phenomenon of a globular mass, apparently surrounded by a flattish ring, recalling the appearance of Saturn. But even this must be regarded as a less interesting object than the Ring Nebula of Lyra now atapears to be, with its marvellous wreaths of sun: and sunstu. Da. Hasxoawa, President of the College of 1Iedicine in the Imperial University, delivered an excellent address to the Private Sanitary Society of Japan at its meeting on the 29th ultimo. His topic was the proposed improvement of the city of Tokyo, and he pointed out with great force and with all the authority of a distinguished man of science that the first object of the improvements should be of a sanitary character. Doctors may do much to palliate illness, but they cannot contend against naturally evil conditions. The soil is..