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  • Algebraic formulÆ, 73.
  • American astronomers, Holden, Pickering, Young, Swift, Comstock, Barnard, Wilson, drew the more conspicuous canals, 65.
  • Ancient irrigation, 115.
  • Ants surviving at high altitudes, 157;
    • unique intelligence, 156.
  • Astronomer's chief work, 74;
    • conservatism, 75.
  • Astronomers who have seen the canals, 83.
  • Astronomical subjects remote from Martian studies, 72.
  • Atmosphere and moisture, Barnard and others, 134, 135;
    • Sir Robert Ball, 137.
  • Austria's care of water, 117.
  • Ball, Sir Robert, difficulties of observation, 84;
    • life on Mars quite likely, 68, 69;
    • objection to Mars being inhabited, 121.
  • Barbour, W. D., with a four inch achromatic, 88.
  • Barnard's, Dr., description of dark regions, 43.
  • Bees, wasps, and ants, 156.
  • Canali supposed to mean canals, 39.
  • Canals appear double, 41;
    • artificiality of, 42;
    • as distinct as engraved lines, 59;
    • chain of reasoning in regard to, 47;
    • double, 41;
    • of Mars, 40;
    • unchangeable in position, 42.
  • Cassini, 33.
  • Chandler's oscillation of pole, 126.
  • Checkerboard appearance of West, 48.
  • Clerke's, Agnes M., expressions, 55.
  • Clouds in Mars, 139;
    • in Mars, Sir Norman Lockyer, 136.
  • Comments and criticism, 125.
  • Committee of British Astronomical Association, 126.
  • Conception of life in other worlds, 17.
  • Conservatism of astronomers, 185.
  • Cracks all of the same nature, 108;
    • discontinuous, 109;
    • in asphalt pavement, 109.
  • Cultivation under cloth, Porto Rico, 50.
  • Dark regions not seas, 45.
  • Dawes, remarkable distinctness of vision, 89.
  • De la Rive, memoir of Faraday, 76.
  • Denning's, Mr., testimony, 56, 57.
  • Difficulties of seeing, 79.
  • Dighton Rock, 97.
  • Draper, Dr. Henry, "Are other worlds inhabited?" 87;
    • difficulties of seeing, 87;
    • high altitudes for telescopes, 88.
  • Drawings of Mars by different observers, 98.
  • Dust storms in Mars, 140.
  • Earth, a standard, 25, 26, 129.
  • Study of planetary markings, 70.
  • Sun and planets reduced to minute scale, 11.
  • Temperature under which man exists, 149.
  • Terby, Dr., identifies many canals, 64.
  • Theories regarding canals, 100.
  • Thollon, brief sketch of, 178.
  • Titles of papers in astronomical journals, 71.
  • Todd, Professor, says canals result of design, 68.
  • Turner, H. H., "Astronomical Discovery," 78;
    • on the difficulties of seeing, 91.
  • Tycho Brahe, 8.
  • Tyndall on imagination, 77.
  • Tyndall's expressions on the Nebular Theory, 15;
    • reference to Nebular Theory, 24.
  • Unfolding of plant life on the earth, 45.
  • Variation in drawings by different observers, 94, 95;
    • of Milky Way, 95;
    • of Nebula of Orion, 95;
    • of Solar Corona, 95, 96.
  • Variety of conditions under which life exists, 147.
  • Vastness of the universe, 10.
  • Wallace, Alfred Russel, human paradox, 29;
    • review of, in London "Nature," 18.
  • Water vapor, no spectroscopic proof of, Campbell, 135.
  • Webb's, Rev. T. W., difficulties of seeing, 91, 92.
  • What the Martians might say of us, 166.
  • White spots in equatorial regions of Mars, 48.
  • White weed in New England, 49.
  • Williams, A. Stanley, difficulty in observation, 82.
  • Would the work of man show in Mars? 122.
  • Young, C. A., on snow caps, 76, 126;
    • on Schiaparelli's discovery, 183.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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