New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-23


con Of disturbance in all directions but most
rapidly in the direction of the planets rotation, So
that the region cleared of clouds by thc ,outsprcal-
Ing of the heated vapor assumed au cllutcal INSTEAD
of a circular shape
] NAV notice IN passing that looking lately over "a
portfolio of astronomical picture, / came upou q
colord drawing made in l~67 10y Professor Mayer.
of the Stevens laStitutc. lIohoi,eu. i'm which the
oval marb NJ is shown precisely IN The Same posi-
iona the great red spot and of about the same S1"
tie only difference being that i'm Professor Mayors
drawing the oval spot appears as ara oval ring OF %
Nciiovjoh color around an oval white spot as
Though after an uprising OF heated yaror. by winch
the clouds had been disSipaod dissolved, the cen
tral portion of the cleared region had condensed
again. the natter there changing from the form OF
Invisible vapOr 70 that of visible cloud.
The strange sunset, and sunri~cS. with lonl-iast-
ing ruddy twiliehts. green and bue sun and
strangely tinted moon continue deservodlv 20 at
tract attention. The >tungcst thing of att Is that
they continue still TO bc seem They began ~ sep
tembcr, and now as write, late in January, ,oc
after sunset q red glare reaching to lhc rortheu
horizon Consider what thi, means For the north
eu skies to be- REDEEMED In this way after sunset
the reg ON of dust or whatever else j; may be- which
is illuminated with rlddy light must be at least
twenty miles above the earthS surface
have nothing To add 10 the various suggestions
which have been Offered. except TO note that n Tn"
whole earth has been peppcrcd with volcanic dust
from Krkatoa. the evidence respecting meicorc
dust ON witch The views recently accepted have
been chiefly based must Ice rceousidrrgd. Tor is he-
comes clcarthat one large volcanic outhur~ can do
more 10 bring matter Stimulating the appearance of
meteor dust 10 the carth> surface than would
suffice for hftv years ol mcteoric supply a. Ai'her"
calculated The smaller volcanic explosions taking
place every year would therefore quite easily ac-
count for every particle Of supposed meteorlc dust
hitherto collected.
The expectations raised hy the announcement
that po~thumous Essay on Instinct 10y tie Newton
of modern biology was to be read before the LnuGa"
society. were doomed 10 bee disappointed. The cS-
say was NOT postlmmous in thcogdin9ry sense that
is not paper prepared for publication Int lett nm
published owing 10 the authors death. Il had been
written thirty years before ard had been do''bcr-
atelv omitted save certain selected passages. from
the work for which it had been originally intended
the famous Origin OF Species Therefore not
only Is II certain that il doe, moi rcpr sent the latest
work and the most advanced IDEAS OF the great
naturalist bat unfortunately it j. certain thar
much in the paper would have hcra corrected by
him had BE- himself prepared i for publication. \
very absurd notion is commonly entertained, na0
note in passing in REGARD 10 the utterancrs of men
like Darwin. Newton w Hcr,chcl and Humboldt.
viz that whatever they may have said during The
progress Of then work must be taken as expressing
the opinion formed q. the result of their work.
have myself been rrbulcl ny persons Jealous quite
for Sin ". Horschels fame. because
have uojDt.J out thar hi. views toward the close
of his wonderful career as an observer were mark
edly different from th..o which Doc had expressed
quarter of % ccutuI, before 1t >cca, bg some tohc
thought ucc",ssry for the falue,, of q great mans
fame that he should bc assumed to have made TO
ad vance whatever during the pro4rr-, of his work.
whereas a- matter of fact the greatest minds ar"
precisely those which chance their views most
quickly. lust as the most active traveller changes
most quickly bis views If the surrounding country