LOWELL, ORSON

(1871); cartoonist 1887 graduated from Chicago Schools; 1887-93 student at Chicago Art Institute. Since 1893 in New York. Illustrator of many books and has done work for periodicals and magazines. Cartoonist since 1907 for a number of New York Magazinés. Member of Society of Tilustrators. an American astronomer, 0. in Boston, Ma . He graduated from Harvard University, in 1876, then spent a long period in Japan and Korea, returning in 1894 as the councillor and foreign secretary of the Korean Special Mi ion to the United States. Later he established the Lowell Observatory, and in 4900 sent an expedition to Tripoli to Observe the transit of Mars, sending another expedition in 1907 to make photographic observations of the same évent. He was recognized as a leading authority on astronomy and especially on the planet Mars, of which he had made almost a life-long study. Among his works are Occult Japan, 1894; Mars, 1895; The Solar System, 1903; Mars and its Canals, 1906; Mars as the Abode of Bale, 1908, and The Evolution of Worlds, 9,