|i| ! R, A. Proctor, the well known astronomer, daring a course of lectures at the theatre of the Society of Arts has started the theory of the growth of the earth. He asserts that not a night passes in which some falling stars are not seen, , and in certain months and on particular . nights the golden rain is incessant, Of ooupse, meteors fall in the day time, top, although unseen, Jt is computed, said the lecturer, that hundreds of thousands of these extra terrene bodies become in* corporated with the earth every twenty - four hours, 400,000,000 in the course of > each year. They may vary in weight between & few grains and a ton. One is ' known to have fallen in South America whjah weighed 15 tons. Tot these small accretions to the earth's matter would i take many millions of years to add a am*- * glo foot to its diameter,
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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 4, 18 April 1877, Page 2
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