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Percival Lowell

Everything successful. The slides came in to me from all sides. Yes, the telegram was unnecessary, a dead loss as against a live fulfilment as always. The lecture went off well, apparently. They, headed by Prof. Chant, are making my visit delightful. The president of the University, Dr. Faulkner, is also charming.

A pleasant lunch with the Harvard Club just over and a dinner with a few select astronomers tonight.

Mr. Godfrey Sykes turned up this morning preparatory to going to England because he can't go to Australia. We had a long chat and he is returning this afternoon to show me some rock on which chemical action by nature has altered the stone since it was pictographed!! 150