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             UNIQUE TALES             11
treatise covering, as it does, the history of the earth, rocks, mountains, glaciers, rivers, lakes, seas, etc., and having done with that it turns its attention to the beginnings of life and then on to ancient man, and finally the prospects of the future. Very worth reading; we highly recommend it for its versatility and really fine illustrations. If you don't feel quite able to afford it at the present, at least look it up at your library-and that goes for all books herein reviewed. 

                SCIENTIFICA
   This is the first of a series of articles devoted to discussions of various scientific establishments in and around Los Angeles. 
   The Griffith observatory, or planetarium, as it is generally known, is due largely, if not entirely, to the philanthropy of one, Colonel Griffith, after whom the building and surrounding park is named. The building is not entirely devoted to the Zeiss invention, however, but is also a sort of astronomical museum, the general plan of construction of which includes a telescope dome, a coleostat or sun telescope, the exhibition foyer and hall, and finally the planetarium hall itself. Included in the list of exhibits are the Foucault pendulum and the model of the moon, which is some twenty odd feet across, besides other exhibits illustrating geology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and mathematics. At night a twelve-inch refracting type Leiss telescope is open to the public for observation.
   In the first room of the building, where the Foucalt pendulum swings over a glass scale, artist Hugo Ballin has done an excellent series of murals depicting various fields of scientific endeavor. The monument in the court raises Hipparchus, Capernicus, Gallileo, Newton, Kepler, and Herschel, so that they look endlessly and tirelessly into the heavens they probed, past the surrounding hills and the valley that slopes to the sea.

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UNIQUE TALES 11 treatise covering, as it does, the history of the earth, rocks, mountains, glaciers, rivers, lakes, seas, etc., and having done with that it turns its attention to the beginnings of life and then on to ancient man, and finally the prospects of the future. Very worth reading; we highly recommend it for its versatility and really fine illustrations. If you don't feel quite able to afford it at the present, at least look it up at your library-and that goes for all books herein reviewed. SCIENTIFICA This is the first of a series of articles devoted to discussions of various scientific establishments in and around Los Angeles. The Griffith observatory, or planetarium, as it is generally known, is due largely, if not entirely, to the philanthropy of one, Colonel Griffith, after whom the building and surrounding park is named. The building is not entirely devoted to the Zeiss invention, however, but is also a sort of astronomical museum, the general plan of construction of which includes a telescope dome, a coleostat or sun telescope, the exhibition foyer and hall, and finally the planetarium hall itself. Included in the list of exhibits are the Foucault pendulum and the model of the moon, which is some twenty odd feet across, besides other exhibits illustrating geology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and mathematics. At night a twelve-inch refracting type Leiss telescope is open to the public for observation. In the first room of the building, where the Foucalt pendulum swings over a glass scale, artist Hugo Ballin has done an excellent series of murals depicting various fields of scientific endeavor. The monument in the court raises Hipparchus, Capernicus, Gallileo, Newton, Kepler, and Herschel, so that they look endlessly and tirelessly into the heavens they probed, past the surrounding hills and the valley that slopes to the sea.