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Tonight we're relaxing with 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,

member of the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America, Janssen Medalist of the

Societet Astronomyc de France, 1904, for researches on Mars, etc. etc.

copyright 1906 by the Macmillan Company, New York and London. Let's begin.

To G. V. Scaparelli, the Columbus of a new planetary world.

This investigation upon it is appreciatively inscribed.

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