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McClure's--"The Canadian Act," by C. W. Eliot '53; "The Planet Mars," by P. Lowell...
...University Observatory has made preparations for a special observation of the transit of the planet Mercury, which will, take place today. Mercury, crosses the base of the sun only about eight times in 100 years, the last transit occurring in 1894. The planet will leave the solar disk at 9.10 A. M. but it will be almost impossible to distinguish its passage without the aid of a field glass. The transits are valuable in determining the planet's course, and the Observatory is as favorably situated as any other in the United States for viewing the one which occurs today...
...advantages of this policy are represented in the current number by a set of short but extremely interesting articles on the planet Mars by four eminent men of science. Professor W. H. Pickering, whose portrait forms the frontispiece, contributes a compact descriptive article on Mars and its canals, the effect of which is curiously modified by Professor A. E. Douglass of the University of Arizona, who explains away most of the canals by giving them a psychological origin in the sensory apparatus of the observer. Professor E. S. Morse writes interestingly of "What the Martians Might Say of Us," reversing...
...station in Arequipa, Peru, 3,919 photographs have been obtained by Professor Bailey with the 13-inch Boyden telescope. The meridian photometer has also been sent to Peru, for the observation of the Planet Eros. With the Bruce Photographic telescope, 6,174 plates have been exposed, including a large number of exposures of asteroids, several of which are probably new. One of these asteroids has a greater eccentricity than any one hitherto known, and has been named Odlo, after the Peruvian goddess. A photograph of Eros was obtained nearly a month before it was observed elsewhere after its conjunction with...
Century -- "Is the Moon a Dead Planet?" Professor W. H. Pickering...