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Rh aid was withdrawn he fell to the ground and broke his neck. The great mechanical discoverer, Worcester, obtained no credence for his theories in bis day, though they are now being continually demonstrated by practical operation. Happily, however, those who impudently and ignorantly deny the great discoveries of Herschel, are chiefly to be found among those whose faith or whose scepticism, would never be received as a guide for the opinions of other men. From among that portion of the public press whose intelligence and acquirements render them competent judges of the great scientific questions now before the community, we extract the following frank declarations of their opinions."—New York Sun, Sep. 1, 1835.

"No article, we believe, has appeared for years, that will command so general a perusal and publication, Sir John has added a stock of know. ledge to the present age that will immortalize his name, and place it high on the page of science."—Daily Advertiser.

".—We commence to-clay the publication of an interesting article which is stated to have been copied from the Edinburgh Journal of Science, and which made its first appearance here in a cotemporary journal of this city. It appears to carry intrinsic evi. dence of being an authentic document."- Mercantile Advertiser.

"—We have read with unspeakable emotions of pleasure and astonishment, an article from the last Edinburgh Scientific Journal, containing an account of the recent discoveries of Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope."—Albany Daily Advertiser.

"It is quite proper that the Sun should be the means of shedding so much light on the Moon. That there should be winged people in the Moon does not strike us as more wonderful than the existence of such a race of beings on earth; and that there does or did exist such a race rests on the evidence of that most veracious of voyagers and circumstantial of chroniclers, Peter Wilkins, whose celebrated work not only gives an account of the general appearance and habits of a most interesting tribe of flying Indians, but also of all those more delicate and engaging traits which the author was enabled to discover by reason of the conjugal relations he entered into with one of the females of the winged tribe."—N. Y. Evening Post.

"We think we can trace in it marks of transatlantic origin."—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

"The writer (Dr. Andrew Grant) displays the most extensive and accurate knowledge of astronomy, and the description of Sir John's