TWO PROBLEMS SOLVED.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 277, 29 August 1881, Page 2

TWO PROBLEMS SOLVED.

rwo interesting problems which have lone perpexed the scientific world appear to have been at last definitely solved by the eminent Geologist, Dr Halm. These’erne*, tions are first, whether or not celestial bodies, other than the earth, belonging to our solar system are inhabited by animate beings, and secondly whether the meteoric stones from time to time cast upon the *<ur. face of this globe emanate from incandeg. cent comet* or from volcanic panet-s That they at no time formed a part of the earth itself lias been conclusively demonstrated Dr. Halm has recently completed a series of investigations upon some of the huge meteoric stores that fell from the skies m Hungary during the summer of 1876 Thin laminae of these mysterious bodies’ subjected to examinations under a powerful microscope, have been found to contain coralline and spongeous formations,

and to reveal iministakoablc traces of the lower forms of vegetation. All ilio organisms, animal and vegetable, discovery I by Dr Hahn in the delie ite stone sh ivin;-- lie has thus dealt with, indicate the comli ion of our parent world to he one of what is technically termed “ primary formation. But the presence of water in that world is proved by the fact that the tiny petrified creatures revealed by the magic of the .ens one and all belong to the so called subaqueous classes of animals. i hey could not have existed in comets, at least if the assumption he correct that these are int> state of combustion. English paper.