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III. III.—SUB-GROUPS AND SPECIES OF GROUP I. I. SUB-GROUP. NEBULÆ. HAVING, in the preceding part of this memoir, attempted to give a general idea of that grouping of celestial bodies which in my opinion best accords with our present knowledge, and which has been based upon the assumed meteoric origin of all of them, I now proceed to test the hypothesis further by showing how it bears the strain put upon it when, in addition to furnishing us with a general grouping, it is used to indicate how the groups should be still further divided, and what specific differences may be expected.
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Suggestions on the Classification of the Various Species of Heavenly Bodies 1 . Nature 38, 8–11 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038008a0
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