[3] Quoted by Dr. Hastie in the preface to his translation of Kant's Cosmogony, Glasgow, 1900.
[4] Sur l'Origine du Monde, 3e éd., p. 136.
[5] This also was pointed out by M. Faye, loc. cit., p. 150.
[6] Nature, July 9, 1903.
[7] Rutherford, Radio-activity, p. 342.
[8] Philosophical Transactions, vol. lxxxi., p. 85.
[9] Herschel met Laplace during a visit to Paris in July, 1801, but what passed between them is unrecorded. In the sixth edition, however, of the Exposition du Système du Monde, Laplace referred to Herschel's observations of nebulæ as confirmatory of his own genetic scheme.