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EVOLUTION OF WORLDS

across, was turned upon the sky, a nebula was brought to light which was unlike any ever before seen. It was

Great Nebula in Andromeda—after Ritchey.

neither irregular like the great nebula in Orion nor round like the so-called planetary nebulæ,—the two great classes at that time known,—but exhibited a striking