PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MARS AND ITS MYSTERY

I INTRODUCTION

II IMMEASURABLE DISTANCES OF SPACE

III OTHER WORLDS INHABITED

IV LOWELL'S BOOK ON MARS

V TESTIMONY OF ASTRONOMERS

VI THE STUDY OF PLANETARY MARKINGS

VII DIFFICULTIES OF SEEING

VIII VARIATION IN DRAWING

IX THEORIES REGARDING THE CANALS

X COMMENTS AND CRITICISM

XI ATMOSPHERE AND MOISTURE

XII NOTES ON IRRIGATION

XIII VARIETY OF CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH LIFE EXISTS

XIV MY OWN WORK

XV WHAT THE MARTIANS MIGHT SAY OF US

XVI SCHIAPARELLI, LOWELL, PERROTIN, THOLLON

XVII LAST WORDS

INDEX

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Notes

MARS
AND ITS MYSTERY

BY
EDWARD S. MORSE
Member National Academy of Sciences

Author of "Japanese Homes and their Surroundings,"
"Glimpses of China and Chinese Homes," etc.

ILLUSTRATED

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1906

Copyright, 1906,
By Little, Brown, and Company.

All rights reserved

Published October, 1906

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

To
PERCIVAL LOWELL
WHO HAS BY HIS ENERGY AND SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT
ESTABLISHED A NEW STANDARD FOR
THE STUDY OF MARS
THIS BOOK
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED