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...meteors and related effluvia has the earth been compounded. A billion or more years ago, according to the planetesimal theory of the late Geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (TIME, Nov. 26). a star passed near to the sun, and by tidal action sucked the gases of a great sunburst out into space as a monster twirling gas mass.† The gas broke into eight main puffs which gradually coalesced into the eight planets-Mercury, Venus, Earth. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The first four are now more or less solid, the others very gaseous, Jupiter, the largest, being...
Thus the planetesimal theory thought out by Chamberlin 30 years ago and elaborated with his Chicago University associate, Astronomer Forest Ray Moulton...
Professor Moulton, since last year a director of Utility Power & Light Corp. (Chicago), has been conducting an acrimonious, unended debate with Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer. Professor Moulton charges British astronomers with belittling Chamberlin's pioneer work on the planetesimal theory and insinuating that they accomplished its real development. Professor Jeffreys pooh-poohs Prof. Moulton's charges, says brusquely that Prof. Moulton "has been asleep for 20 years...
...give flying passengers convenience New York City authorities have commissioned Clarence D. Chamberlin to lay out a field on Barren Island in New York Harbor. Last week Barren Island was so far prepared that the Curtiss flying service made arrangements to move its headquarters ters there from famed Curtiss Field...
TODAY Anthropology 2Harvard 8 Chemistry B Mallinckrodt Large Lect.-rm. Chinese 3 Sever 30 Class. Archaeology 1a Sever 18 Class. Philology 39 Sever 18 Comp. Literature 6a Sever 11 Comp. Literature 35 Sever 30 Comp. Philology 1 Sever 18 Economics A Mr. Bigelow, O, Y New Lect. Hall Dr. Chamberlin, C New Lect. Hall Mr. deChazeau, K, T. New Lect. Hall Mr. Crane, J, R New Lect. Hall Mr. Johnson, G, S New Lect. Hall Mr. Leighton, B, E New Lect. Hall Mr. Parsons, W, BB Memorial Hall Mr. Ratzlaff, L, U Harvard 6 Mr. Shoemaker, A, P Memorial Hall...