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A black and white sketch of Percival Lowell. The caption at the top reads “THE ASTRONOMER WHOSE DISCOVERIES POINT TO ORGANIC LIFE ON MARS.” Below the sketch, it says “DISCOVERER OF. MOST OF THE SIX- HUNDRED-AND-NINETY CANALS OF MARS: PROFESSOR PERCIVAL LOWELL Professor Lowell, the famous American astronomer. at whose observatory so many remarkable paotographs of the planets have been taken. firmly believes that organic life exists on Mars, and has advanced many strikind proofs in suoport of his assertion. Writing in Bulletin No. 45 of the Lowell Observatory. he says of the canals most recently discovered: The word new. when applied to at celestial phenomenon. may be used in either of two senses. It may mean to earthly observation that is, one which has never been seen by human beings before.or. second vasocoin one which has had no previous existence. New canals on Mars in the first sense, though always interesting and at times highly important. are no novelty at Riadstaff, inasmuch as some 550 have been discovered here in the last fifteen years.”