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MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1902
SCIENCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
THE WILD HORSE OF ASIA.
The Duke of Bedford, it is stated, has Address by Sir William Présce,addad to his collection at Walms dozen
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made, ears. The which in coupentirely, short, thick, al half erect, is reddish brown, Bike the tail and a stranske along the imek, while the rest, the count, which in Winter becomes long, thick, and shaggy, is more or less of a sy tint. Cool Prajerideki came upor star wiki horse in Central Asin which
In delivering the inaugural address of specimens of the wild hurau of Central Asia the one hundred and forty-eighth session of the parent, we may prosume (says The the Society of Arts, Sir W. H: Preece, the Standard), of all our domestic varietien, Chairman of the Conncil, surveyed the frogs the smallest Shetinas pory to the doings of the past century in the applica- biggest dmyhome. Orice ranging far more tion of the discoveries of scance to further widely, the Tarpan is now restricted to the the objects of the Society, which was estab. open steppes and inhospitable dénerts of fished in 1754 for the couragement of the Central Asin, for it arouk alike forests and arts, manufactures, and commered of the nountains. There they range in troops led Country. He remarked that tho workers by an old stall, moving always against in the realm of acientine research were in the wind, rver on the alert to scent a com- slightest alarms, They are smaller and scientific discovery of the Seventeenth Century was the law of universal gravitation mere slender in built than the average by Ismo Newton; the greatest of the Eigh domestic home, but with rather larger teenth Century wristlie Jaw of Wat, which determined the Intent heat of strani con- densation at different temperatures and 2219 pressures; the great asientific discoveries
of the Nineteenth Century had been (1); the principle of crelation, (2) the atomic stratience of matter, (3) the existence of the other and the undulatory theory of light, (4) the principles of electro-magnetic induction and electorlysis, and (5), the principle of the conservation of energy Discussing these latter discoveries, he mentionel ritat the end of the Nineteenth Century had been characterised by the 2189 discurary of several new clamonts-under the vary favoùmble conditions of argen, belica, kryptin, mun, nad avion. Woburn, ne muy hope that a pair wil | The Nineteenth Century was character before long be on view at the Ziological ised by many hypothers to explain! Gardens in Regent's Park. Few living the existeneo of mother, and the Twen-¡ unimnis have a more interesting history. tietli - Century began without the eats The horse is been traced by palvontolo. tence of an neesplable theory. Our gets for back in time. Passing over grand ull of science, Lord Kelvin, Sad more dubious ancestors in yet more tackled the problem with all the energy of raminte age, they have identified two ancient deposite his vigorous mjad, bat had failed to invent equine animola in the final theory of the structure of tho med- of the Pliocese period. One of these, call- Homa. Es had, hímself, always "egarded J. ed. Protchippus, is undoubtedly the ances Faraday's Researches as the Bible of the tor of the extinct horses of America; tio 1607 electrican, but in the express rate of living other, named Hippirion--found in Europe,
of the present day, and the perenal and Asie-probably occupies the same posi- development of the applications of electrition to the hrases of the Old World. This
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sane zonlogists consider it species, and have ramed it after the discoverer. Others, however, believe it to be a hybrid between the Trpm and the Xiang or Mongolian gaiety of the Asintie will ass. If this new importatis ihrive
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to study that mignificent work. Faraday's had already become watch larger than those discoveries lay at the ross of every dynamo | on either side; and so the change westen, and every moter, and formed the basja till the latter drindled into the splint- of every practical application of electri-
bones of the true horse. Whether tho pity. The principle of energy was uniques. wild horses now abundant in some parts tionably the greatest discovery of the Ninatenth Century is its farcaching which nice existed on that Continent and economical qualities In 4 reviews is very sledbtial." In uony rases they are
of America are descendants of those,
of the application of energy to the certainly ful; that is, the progeny of manufactures, and coth merco of this out-
arionis, in domesticated, which have try, Sir W. H. Preece traced the advance relapsed into a wild condition. It is pos- made under the different foring af heat, sible, therefore, that, between the pan light, ulectricity, angnetism, sound, and and the Indians, all the original breed were exterrainated before the white may again power. The engines, of to-day were ren
Old introduced the hon from the BJanuary
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times more effective than those made in Built under foreign saperintendence, thug Soho in 1800. Consumption of cual per in.
Worki. But that the wild species ughly overhauled by Mosers Barricated horse-power per hour had been re-ranged for once West of its present home Menray, Engineers, etc., and earth
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fed to be in First-Class Order and duced from 10lb, to Elb; the working of is beyond all question. Its remains are Condition. The Launch is fitted in stosta espassively, abandoned by Watt, its common in beds both before and after the Europeas stylo, suitable for towing inventor, was now utilised four times.over. "Glacial age. It waned over England,
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and pressures, then only lotb. par square together with the clammoth and the woudly inth, had reached 200). He gave details thinoceros, nad its bones are found in aves and in the grace of the Thames of the great expansion of the electric, tolo- graph which was the child of the Nine and many other river. Even in those 2106 teeth Century, sind humorously asked what days they needed to be feat, for lions, world an American Syndicato pâre for the wolves, and byæpas took roll of them, and Post Fifice telegraph system, which origin-Man, in the age of roughly chipped stone ally post the country £5,000,000, but which weapons, was glad enough trent horseflesh. £30,000,000 (hear, Rough, bar spirited sketches of the fores hear). We should eventually have all our runner of the Tarpan have been found, telegraus printed in type, and there was no incised, on pieces of bine, in caves, Apparent cessation to the progress of tale-especially those of the Dordognes-Volte ply to further explined the progress were probably prowd and tamed in the nude in wireless telegraphy, a peculiar ap more civilised epuch whor weapons of plication of which existed in the day of the polished stone came into ase--in which Rúman Empire. Mr Marconi's system was (cue the horse, as a domesticated animal, still in an experimental stage, but that would be nider than the age of Bronze. gentleman, was in lus very sincerely con. Mr Lydekker hints that the animals A HOUSE in KIPON TERRACE.
NEITHER the Captain the Agents nim gratulated on what he had already done, employed by the Britons and Germas THE RETREAT,' Mouse Kuttert.
aners will be Responsible for any and every one wished him continued sue-la. Camera tims were derived from an GOBOWKS at BLUE BUILDINGS.
Debt contrasted by the Offteers or Crate.in. Horses AT CAUSEWAY BAY, FACING THE the following Fessel, during ito slay
cons (appliusal. But far and away above original native stock which continued to Peis GIGUSP.
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all other electrical developments in wonder oxist in Europe to a stil Inter date. Strabo DLAGU Americani stup, Capt. W. Good-and simplicity had been the telephine, asserts that in his days they existed in win.-Standard Oil Co.
developed by Graham Bell in 1876, and Synin and the Alpe, and Fany speaks of Mons BAY. Brit. barque, Capt. James perfected by Edison and Haghus in 1878. their occurrance throughout`a great part A. Boyd, Jardine, Matheson & Co.
Trenty-four years ago he brought the first of Northern Europe. Long after that they pair of telephones to Europa, and but for are mentioned as living in the Ardenues, mismanagement at dhe tire the telephone in the neighbourhood of St. Gall, and dona would now have been everywhere. The thy beginning of the Fourteenth Century, rl and only solation had not yet been in Westphalin. This is their latest certain talen. A cheap, efficient and reliable tale.appearance in Europe, though even in the phung service was Imperial and, like let-middle of the Eighteenth Century they were ters. parcels, and telegraphy, it should sing in Asin as, fry West as the Urals.
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