TWO PROBLEMS SOLVED. ».,■.

Manawatu Herald, 23 August 1881, Page 4

TWO PROBLEMS SOLVED. ».,■.

Two interesting problems which have long, perplexed the scientific world appear t<> have baen at last definitely solved by the eminent geologist; t)r. Hahn. These ques tions are first, whether or not celetial bodies,. 'other than the earth, belonging' to our solar system are inhabited by animate beings, and secondly, wh^her the meteoric stones from time to time east upon the ; surface^of this globe emauate from incandescent comets or from volcanic planets. That they at no time formed a part of the earth itself has been conclusively demonstrated Dr. Hahu has rtcently completed a scries of investigations upon smiie of the huge meteoric stones that fell from the skies in Hungary during the summer of 1866. Thin laurinee of these mysterious bodies, subjected to examination under a powerful microscope; have been found to contain coralline, and spongeous formations, pndto reveal unmistakeablo traces of the lower forms of vegetation. All the organisms, animal and vegetable, discovered by Dr Hahn in the delicate stone shavings hehns thus dealt w ith, indicate the condition of our pa jon t world to bfione of what istechnicaily termed H 'primary, formation." lut the pre^eiice. of water iv that world is pt«>ve4. a by;thy'iae.t that the tiny petrified, pi gat'ure* revealed by the magic of the lens one and all belting to the«^QjtCiilled >iJ aubagu,eous classes of anipa^B. could not have existed in comets, at bast if the as sumption be, correct that these are in a state pi". fojuifcusvion. ■ -English paper.