Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-11-24 | Page 7 | Fine Irrigation System on Mars

f IDE IRRIGATION lYSTEH ON MARS Diiictorof flagstaff Observatory Ob-servatory Tells of Resent Re-sent Researches. BOSTON. Nov. 24. Prof. Percival Lowell, director of the Flagstaff obser-t obser-t vatory, addressed the Society of Arts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tech-nology last night on "Recent Researches Re-searches on the Canals of Mars." ' T4 telescope through which the re-tcjyj. re-tcjyj. observation o'f the ' planet was frisky is a. twenty-four-inch glass and Ovslfcsnet apace-penetrating of any In the wdrjd. He said through the telescope tele-scope Mars was the most superb object that could be imagined' and there was no woman who would not, give up her Jewel for the effect. ProVL Vyell differed with Prof. W. H. PirVsTing. 'ho announced in 1898 that.tteliscovered forty lakes upon the Ilanet. The speaker said that observations observa-tions at Flagstaff showed that the dots observed by Prof. Pickering were there but they were not lakes. The number of the dots had Increased to 400, as shown upon the disks and were recognizable recog-nizable today. Whe- whole surface of the planet was triangulated by lines which were believed be-lieved to b canals. The canals started at the Arctic and continued straight down-to the opposite pole.- He therefore there-fore "believed that these canals were not natural, but artificial.