Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . his successor, Sir liobiH Hull, iictween 18(i7 and INSl. The , ;-i,w; 685 determinations of nine sonthern stars \>y (lill and Klkin, inLS82-3, showed the helionicter to be tho inslrunient bestadapted for this class of work. They fixed tlie distanoe ofa Centauri—still onr nearest known sidereal nei^^hbonr—attwenty-five billions of miles; showed Sirius to be abont twice asremote; and the brill
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . his successor, Sir liobiH Hull, iictween 18(i7 and INSl. The , ;-i,w; 685 determinations of nine sonthern stars \>y (lill and Klkin, inLS82-3, showed the helionicter to be tho inslrunient bestadapted for this class of work. They fixed tlie distanoe ofa Centauri—still onr nearest known sidereal nei^^hbonr—attwenty-five billions of miles; showed Sirius to be abont twice asremote; and the brilliant tanopns to lie alto^vther beyond thereach of their soundins. Dr. Gill snceeeded Mr. Stone a-S. riioTui,i;-vru or cumi;! m .:. is^:,Nujnaiors st.\ (J5i/ Jifniussioii of Sir LXiHd tliU, ]:) Astronomer at the Cape in iNT!). Jlr. Stone havin,i; occu-pied the post from the retirement of Sir Thomas Maclear in1S7(). At Greenwich the administration was transferrcHl, in18S1, from Sir tJeorge Airy to Mr. W. H. M. Christie. A profound alteration has, since IM-Ki, afVccted ideas re- The ffardinuf the structure of tlie universe. Sir John Herschcls ^®;^^o i^ _ ... ProDlem. description of the Magellanic Clouds as aggregations of siderealmatter in all stages of condensation proved, as Whewell insistedin IS58, and Herbert Spencer in 1858, that star-clusters andnebnhe ditter generically: and the fact was rcndero<l patentby Hugginss ajiplicalion to ilieiu of the spectroscope. The dis-tribution of nebula-, too, in obvious correspondence with the 696 THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCRACY. lines of the Milky Way (shown in Mr. Sidney Waterss chartof 1869), effectually reduces the
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