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Lowell (PERCIVAL an American author)

PERCIVAL, an American author and astronomer; born in Boston, Mass., March 13, 1855. He was graduated from Harvard in 1876, and spent some time in Japan and Korea. He established the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., in 1894. Among his works are: "Chosön, a Sketch of Corea" (1886); "The Soul of the Far East" (1888); "Mars" (1895); "Annals of the Lowell Observatory" (1898-1900); "Mars and Its Canals" (1906); "Mars as the Abode of Life" (1908); "The Evolution of Worlds" (1909). Died in 1916.