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but it may be long before we have a com-
                                         plete theory evolved to explain all the phe-
                                         nomena of the storm-swept metallic atmo-
                                         sphere of the sun.
                                            The proceedings of scientific societies teem
                                         with such facts and ”working hypotheses,”
                                         and the best of them have been collected
                                         by Miss Clerke in her History of Astron-
                                         omy during the Nineteenth Century . As
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