AUTHOR OF THE PARTIAL IMPACT THEORY

Evening Star, Issue 14185, 9 October 1909, Page 12

AUTHOR OF THE PARTIAL IMPACT THEORY

In the course of a letter to Professor Bickerton, Mr J. T. Ward, the asti ■onomer at the Wanganui Observatory, writes: “I am glad indeed to see that a certain amount ol recognition of your grand generalisation has been granted, and I trust it will spread. When every writer on astronomical subjects a few years ago was voicing the dismal theory of the dissipation of energy and universal death, you alone gave utterance to the grand go-pel ot continuity. I trust that all those writers who have since made it a part of their teaching in astronomy may yet acknowledge its source, and give credit to the originator. To my mind you have done for cosmogony what Darwin did for biology, and all I wish is that you may live to obtain the recognition that was accorded in ins lifetime to the great discoverer of natural selection.” b ‘‘'peaking of Professor Bickerton at a public meeting yesterday (wires our Christchurch corresjxmdenr), Bishop Julius said JT bIV *" a ' T n ¥ er a monument would be erected m Cathedral square in honor ot the discoverer of the theory of partial impact, and he hoped it would not be said with truth then that the citizens ”• „ professors own time would not * n T ,, t i t<l serld l,inl H °me to advance his theory in the scientific world.