[Illustration: DR. WILLIAM HUGGINS, D.C.L., LL.D., PRESIDENT OF THE
BRITISH ASSOCIATION.
Dr. Huggins is one of the most eminent astronomers of the present day,
and his spectroscopic researches on the celestial bodies have had the
most important results. He is a D.C.L. of Oxford, LL.D. of Cambridge,
and Ph.D of Leyden. Dr. Huggins was born in 1824 and educated at the
City of London School. He continued his studies, giving much of his
time to experiments in natural philosophy and physical science. In
1855 Dr. Huggins erected a private observatory at his residence on
Tulse Hill, where he has carried out valuable prismatic researches
with the spectroscope.--_Daily Graphic._]
OTHER SPECULATIONS.
The nebular hypothesis of Laplace required a rotating mass of fluid
which at successive epochs became unstable from excess of motion, and
left behind rings, or more probably, perhaps, lumps, of matter from
the equatorial regions. To some thinkers was suggested a different
view of things, according to which it was not necessary to suppose
that one part of the system gravitationally supported another. The
whole might consist of a congeries of discrete bodies, even if these
bodies were the ultimate molecules of matter.
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