. Tllli ORIC.^T IN .\NDROMED.\. [From a photograph by Rilchey, ol the Yerkes Observatory) non-nebular, extra-galactic nature of the spirals, and accordingly many of the most eminent astronomers— such as Eddington and others—have been disposed to look favourably on the " island universe " hypothesis. The Messrs. Lindemann, in their recent preliminary application of photo-electric photometry to astronomy, have reached an estimate of the distance of the Andromeda nebula, the greatest of the spirals. They find it to be distant 350,000 parsecs, or a little over 1,000,000 l
. Tllli ORIC.^T IN .\NDROMED.\. [From a photograph by Rilchey, ol the Yerkes Observatory) non-nebular, extra-galactic nature of the spirals, and accordingly many of the most eminent astronomers— such as Eddington and others—have been disposed to look favourably on the " island universe " hypothesis. The Messrs. Lindemann, in their recent preliminary application of photo-electric photometry to astronomy, have reached an estimate of the distance of the Andromeda nebula, the greatest of the spirals. They find it to be distant 350,000 parsecs, or a little over 1,000,000 light-years, maintaining that there is " nothing inconsistent in regarding this nebula as a galaxy very similar to our ; The recent work of Shapley, however, would seem to indicate that, whatever the spirals are, they are not of equal status with the galactic system. He regards
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