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...discovery of the immense speed of RZ Cephei is said to be important to astronomers as suggesting that this type of variable star escapes from the globular clusters, a hypothesis suggested also by other recent observations...
...Bailey, who played an important part in its establishment over thirty years ago and served for a long time as its director. He plans to spend the next two years in Peru. In addition to supervising the routine affairs of the station he will continue his studies of the globular star-clusters...
...Observatory, developed under Professor Pickering, who served as its director for 42 years and was instrumental in giving it its present standing in the astronomical world, has dealt with the collection of data on the brightness of the stars, the spectra of the stars, the variable stars, and the globular clusters...
...palm-house at the Botanic Garden, there is now a large Cycas, or so called Sago palm, in fruit. In the centre of the great cluster of bright green leaves there is a globular mass of reduced leaves of a tawny color, many of them bearing on their edges flat and exposed ovules...
...commission, delivered a lecture on "Sponges" before the Natural History Society, in which he gave the results of his studies, some of which are as yet unpublished. He differs from many others in his classification, and in regarding sponges as individuals not as colonies. A sponge is essentially a globular sieve with the meshes prolonged into a labyrinth of minute tubes. Contrary to the general belief, sponges breathe by means of their outer layer. The inner layer consists of small cells armed with whips which create a current to draw in the small water animals which form its food. Between...