Mr. Dodd had expected to publish this
paper in New York, and had requested that it should be forwarded to that
city. I have at last complied with his wishes, and the MS. leaves my
hands, absolutely unchanged, consigned through the kind intervention of
a friend, to a publishing house in that western metropolis. I am unable
to add anything more to this statement, which, in itself, I fear conveys
considerable censure to the undersigned.
August Bixby Dodan.
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Note by the Editor.
The MS. alluded to by Mr. Dodan in the preceding paragraphs was safely
brought to New York in 1900, and after a very careful examination,
repeatedly rejected by the prominent publishers to whom it was
submitted.
Through a peculiar accident connected with some negotiations pertaining
to a scientific work, contemplated by the writer, the MS. came into his
hands, and he has been encouraged to publish it, influenced by the
favorable comments of friends upon its intrinsic interest. He also has
added to the work as an appendix, which cannot fail to attract the
attention of many, the views of the great astronomer Schiaparelli upon
the present physical condition of Mars, being the reproduction of an
article by that distinguished observer translated from _Nature et Arte_
for February, 1893, by Prof. William H. Pickering and published in the
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
for 1894, published here by permission of "Astronomy and Astro-Physics,"
in which journal it first appeared in Vol.
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