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Mars’ Hill
MARS
AND ITS CANALS
BY
PERCIVAL LOWELL
DIRECTOR OF THE OBSERVATORY AT FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA; NON-RESIDENT
PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY; FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND
SCIENCES; MEMBRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ ASTRONOMIQUE DE FRANCE;
MEMBER OF THE ASTRONOMICAL AND ASTROPHYSICAL SOCIETY
OF AMERICA; MITGLIED DER ASTRONOMISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT;
MEMBRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ BELGE D’ASTRONOMIE; HONORARY
MEMBER OF THE SOCIEDAD ASTRONOMICA DE MEXICO;
JANSSEN MEDALIST OF THE SOCIÉTÉ ASTRONOMIQUE
DE FRANCE, 1904, FOR RESEARCHES ON MARS;
ETC., ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1906
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1906,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published December, 1906.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To
G. V. SCHIAPARELLI
THE COLUMBUS OF A NEW PLANETARY WORLD
THIS INVESTIGATION UPON IT
IS APPRECIATIVELY
INSCRIBED