New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-17
TIE E.iRTHS S.ITELLIIE.

rInrr--1H pEoCToE's LAST LEC1rW-TIiE hoos
Is TIE fiyAL sTAGr UP H. IfFH.
pr,r,..or Richard 4. Proctor lccturcl IN SioinWV
HAN Yesterday afternoon before the Teachers A''o
.i,ti.u,f this ,ity. His subject was The Moon'
and h.. was listened toand frequently applandedg
YER, large audicucc. hi, was Professor fro'i0rs
l. lecture thi, sr,on. rs u, viii sal for LHg'lAa
-oon Tie spoke in sIb,tlnc as follows:
THE moon Is the ou' member of The SOLAR 'ysien
r,t ma, passed throulh It's liie. have been ~ the
habit of saving that There are five Stages 10 even
planet, life: inst, the Nap"p; s'co0a,
the fiery; third, mil-llc; fourth oa
a,.: and fii, death. The moon "ca"
pass through some of thee in 4 les GreIce th'a
Other planets. II may b. questioned ~hrihd
l, - small rs the moon V.,rSrr lila siafe % susp
intr,,. heat a. tie sun. II seem, 90 nlr that INC
earlier Stages of hr moons lr WEI" shorter ON ~
count of - smaller ua,s. In the l'ih >'i.', W,
moon would hc 50 hot thdt wat,rcouid n"i i'st 49,
n, surface, but would nr raised mp ln '.od'' III
d, reason to believe tlal every planet las yI's
Though that stage. The hiet stag ~ Nii'n ~
nov g,t evidence in the moon !. thar oi Vol ahl' ~
INN f. must have lasted q long time. lhrn cane
t,. period oi utnrSs for life. We see certain ltau
which, IL thN had pre- allied tine past Mohu Isi
rld. hcr INIT for such lie as We hlN" on "ir e'ls
Il not tue tlat ih' moon irN"iy'S aIo"in IN ~
,atin The earth and thr moon ciicir aIohNu a. a.
otltrr.ant The real 'ntrr Around Which DON I''k
!. th, iuu. The moon - distant H'i" til' az az
.,.,- SIS miles 10 would take au ouln1y
IN of railway car. niieen months
~ there Her diameter Is 2lel miles. lh gl,u.
h.r a surface by no means cout'ulpuhc. II a.h"ups
to aimnt ll.oOO,OOO spnsrc miles. iler volume
on -uiuth Of that al TIE r1rth AMI her hidss'
one eighty first oi u. .ts
I'm, toI,r ot gravity on the moon Is on'->iNih on
fnr.,. ON the earth. W. Womb lc much t.uic a'ho
there Mcn might be six times as tall 90 Ne 49, 81
,,i,on the moon. and still quite - active. lhsn
weight Would br thirty -SiN times - great ~ our =.
thr moon A; on the earth II WoulI he 20 liih's
rr,at and they would bc crushed hy thcii nns
hraNin,s, The lunar day il a great deal longer ,n
u,ir. The time between SUNRISE AMI sAnSN "a
tvruty-nine and onc-half of Our days. hr iuO as
v.ar of lea sous equals 3iGl1 OF our days h' ,
or much les marked, her axis beng mn,h nor s,
RIGHT than that of the earth. ~ ms pr ,ss
lime owing to the length Of the lunar ua',rA
| moon would be totally unht Lon an, ssly
IN. a, we know. In her day she becomes ii''h ~
hot AMI i'm her night intensely cold. Lofd hos'I IA
means of his siN-foot rejecting telescope anu
,L'r,uon, L. was able 90 measure BORN the rebLv
is,t of ibe moon and that which she gives gu. ,c,
,eJi,tion He found that her surface h 900 LUZ
-, mn,u than AT midnight. Ii would be 2oo vs. u.s.
"err M midnighi and At noon 10 above OF "A
! have The boiling point. No creature conid ~ Il
! ",,ber une There may have been some kino o .,
| III, which we Ito not know. All eNlaehe's s,hs
| show that there is none now. According 'oh,u,
| thcorirs OF geology the earth must now pc.Sh,l
| Sno 600 900 wears old. The moon probably nc" III
nor present state in about sO,OOOOoO 4caIs.,oa "A
ratth will probably not reach the same cohu''e "a
| the moon in less than another ouoVOo'ouyy ie 10
| Il, Therefore need not fear that there Wiz
| room ior the lives of our Immediate desc'n"""