Globe of Mars, longitude 270°, 1909. 
wane, have what appears to be a ‘‘live”’ 
and a‘‘dead’’ season. 
From drawing by Percival Lowell 
Dr. Lowell has discovered that the canals of Mars wax and 
They are thought to be strips and oases 
of vegetation sustained by the waters of melting solar snow-caps, distributed through canals constructed 
by intelligent beings 
Observatory, that not only does Mars 
have an atmosphere, although less dense 
than the earth’s, but that it contains 
the essential life-supporting substances, 
oxygen and water-vapor. 
Photographs by Mr. C. O. Lampland 
taken with the great reflecting telescope 
of forty inches aperture, at the Lowell 
Observatory, show star clusters contain- 
ing almost countless suns similar to our 
own, but so distant that their light 
travels hundreds of years to reach us; 
as well as examples of the different 
classes of nebule presenting 
216 
unique 
and interesting forms. Also, photo- 
graphs of our moon show clearly the 
great craters many times larger than 
any on the earth, and mountains which 
rise to a height of ten thousand feet or 
more. 
What has created most interest, how- 
ever, are the non-pareil photographs of 
the Martian canals — the possible in- 
genious handiwork of intelligent beings. 
These peculiar markings characteristic 
of Mars only, were first detected in 
1877, by the eminent Italian astronomer, 
Schiaparelli. Because of similarity of 
