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The evolution of worlds (1909)

Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 66

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hape shows that they are not wholes butparts, while their con-stitution bespeaks themanything but elementary.Diagnosis of it yieldsperhaps their most interesting bit of news. For it showstheir origin. Their autopsy proves them to containthirty known elements, and not one that is new. Thelist… … The Mart Iron.(Proc. Wash. Acad, of Set. vol. II. plate VI.) 42 THE EVOLUTION OF WORLDS ficially familiar. Professor Newton, whose specialtythey were, has said: In general they show no resem-blance in their mechanical or mineralogical structureto the granitic and surface rocks of the Earth. One

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