Organic Life In Other Planets

A marvellous discovery was. made a year ago by Dr. O. Hahn, bat so incredible did it seem tliat the learned world ref used to take notice of it, with one exception. Dr. D. F. Weinland devoted a year to study Ilahn's book and to test thoroughly his microscopic researches and their results. He now ' publisbes bis opinión and declares that I Hahn has proved the existence of or! ganic remains in the stones wliich dart ,into the terrestrial atmosphere from stellar space. From museums iu Tubingen and m Vienna Hahn procured himself more than 600 chips of meteorites of the Choadrie class, proved in each ca3e to be genuine, and having been collected on eigliteen different occasions, partly during the present and partly during the last century in Europe Asia, and America. Minute in3pection has discovered in them a quantity of organie remains, principalljr belonging to the most ancient forrn ot porous coramnes, to the genus of fossil zoolphyies denominated FavO3ites, or at kast bearing a very strong resemblance to thsse latter, though a still smaller type. About fifty kinds of these tiny animáis hare been made out by Dr. Hahn and assigned to sixteen different families, to whieh he has given ñames, thus laying the foundation of a new branch of zoülogy - meteoric zoology. Dr. Weinland says that it is only the shell of the Choadrie metorite that is burnt and glazed by friction with cur atmosphere. The heat does not extend so far during the short transit of the meteor as to impair the kernel, which has an appearance somewhat like coarse shell lime, of a conglomeration of petrifled organic matter, baked in a lump. Though only few specimens can be called well preserved, yet the substance is sufflciently distinguwhable to enable us to class most of the structures atuong the Polycistines knd the . inifera. They must have existed in. water warm enough never to freeze down to the bottom. Where are we to seek for this water, if Prof. Schiaparell teilsus that meteorites do not belong to our solar system, but are intruders. f rom without? Very strange is the; complete resemblance of all the cuttings examined to one another, though,, as stated, they belong to stones fallera at different periods in all parta of the