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Percival Lowell FLAGSTAFF Thank you for the N. Y. Times of Oct. 18. Of course I did not say that the Martians were human beings: quite au contraire, as you know from the lecture in question, "Mars: Forecasts and Fulfilments." You had best deny it when it comes up. I have sent Mr. Miller a denial and a copy of the lecture to use to that effect.

I did not know that the enclosed from the Public Ledger came to you or I should have written you about it. If you think wise you can write H. B. B. that the Canals have always been considered by the Lowell Observatory to be strips of vegetation and that the intelligence there has never been said to be human or thought to be. 160