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Percival Lowell

Paris is hardly itself this year: the tourists are few; the costumes caricatures and generally hideous at that; the weather that of February. The cold I like. It is not so bad as it was. I can sit now in my parlor without an overcoat, of course with all my winter clothes on. Nevertheless last night they celebrated the Fete du Soleil on the Eiffel Tower. I went and except for the length of the festivities enjoyed the affair. Met M. Eiffel, Lallement of the Bureau des Longitudes, etc., etc. Escaped nearly dead.

On Wednesday I showed our latest results to the Bureau des Longitudes. It made "un grand effet" according to Deslandres. There were a dozen there including Baillaud, Andoyer, Darboux, Picard, Bigourdan, Ct. de La Baume, Pluvinel, the Admiral Fougaet, Deslandres and others.

This morning arrived prints of Mr. Lake's last two globes: mine and Mr. Slipher's for 1914. Of course I can only judge of their general appearance except a few things that strike me and had better be changed. Slipher's 770 is my 746; the northern parts of mine and the Syrtis Major should be a little darker. Perhaps a little different printing would bring out the proper effect. 118