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Sir William' Hnggins, K.C.8., 0.M., the. celebrated astronomer, has died nt'the iJ? e , He purchased a' house at Tulse Hill in 1856, and built and equipped there an observatory at considerable expense, one of his earliest telescopes alono costing over ,£2OO. His great 'work was in connection with spectroscopic astronomy. He showed beyond question that the countless stars are suns after tho order of our sun. though fn different evolutional stages. He solved, iii the face of specially great difficulties, the mystery of the nebulae and penetrated the mystery of the prominences noted on the surface of the sun. He was a former president of the Royal Astronomical Society, a president of -the British Association, and the president of tile Royal Society.

The Harrogate Town Council, has decided .to .bar goats grazing on the Stray. A councillor said the animals liad proved a nuisance, and had even eaten, gravestones. The vicar of Christ Church also gave the goats a bad character.

xhe Oxford University Tutorial Classes Committee have just issued a report on ™„ e nrst year's working to September 30, 1909. The total number of students registered was 237, of which 216 were men Over, half of'the students. (60.5 per cent.) were under the age of 34. Nearly ail .the students, as to whom particulars are available, were workpeople in the narrower sense of manual workers, 59,1 pei cent, being drawn from three groups ol traclos-r-engineering, textiles, asd building—and the rest being scattered over a la'.ge number of different occupations, the committee state that the.work done by many of the students would compare favourably with, that of first-class students m the ]?mal Honour Schools at Oxford. N

A Lancashire firm is putting out posters in duplicate form, the upper portion being printed the wrong way up so that it may be read by passing aviators. •

A Canadian journalist, who left Montreal on New Year's Day, 1907, to walk round the world, readied the end of his journey recently, when he arrived at' Liverpool from Hull. Tie had covered 0000 miles in'the three years and worn out seventy-two pairs of boots.

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