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At perihelion, when in opposition with the earth, it is 35 millions of miles from the earth, and its surface, as is well known from the drawings of Kaiser, the Leyden astronomer, and of Schiaparelli, Denning, Perrotin and Terby, has apparently revealed an alternation of land and water which, with the assumption of meteorological conditions, such as prevail on the earth, has gradually made it easy to think of its occupation by rational beings as altogether possible.
And he, the poor youth staked at his cross-roads, took all these currents unto him, the entire stream. Edmé reminded Clerambault sometimes of Perrotin, but he and Froment were worlds apart.
Important series of double-star observations were made by Perrotin at Nice in 1883-4; by Hall, with the 26-inch Washington equatoreal, 1874 to 1891; by Schiaparelli from 1875 onward; by Glasenapp, O. Stone, Leavenworth, Seabroke, and many besides. Finally, Professor Hussey's revision of the Pulkowa Catalogue is a work of the teres atque rotundus kind, which leaves little or nothing to be desired.
They were referred by Perrotin to clouds. In March and April of the year 1886 a study was made of the surface of Mars by W.F. Denning in England. Mr. Denning's drawings corroborated the charts of Green, Schiaparelli, Knobel, Terby and Baeddicker.
"The look is enough for me," said Perrotin gently. "And without the breath I should die!" exclaimed Clerambault. In a man of thought there is a wide interval between the word and the deed. And to what end? In order to calm his restless soul he pours out a flood of energetic language on his intimate friends, or to himself alone, and in this way gains the illusion of action cheaply enough.
No, he must put himself out of sight, in order to get a clear view over the clouds of dust raised by the flock on the road of today, to take in the whole horizon, so as to put events in their proper place in the scheme of the universe." "Then," said Perrotin, "he must accommodate himself to the laws of that universe."
"How can you imagine such things to add to your trouble?" "It was I who shut his eyes," said Clerambault bitterly, "and he has opened mine." Perrotin pushed aside the work, which according to his habit he had continued to ruminate upon during the conversation, and looked narrowly at his friend, who bent his head, and began his story in an indistinct voice, sad and charged with feeling.
Shadings, it is true, were almost always, though faintly, seen; but they appeared under an anomalous, possibly an illusory aspect. They consisted, not of parallel, but of forked bands. Measurements of the little sea-green disc which represents to us the massive bulk of Uranus, by Young, Schiaparelli, Safarik, H. C. Wilson and Perrotin, prove it to be quite distinctly bulged.
Perrotin was rather short-sighted and selfish, and did not take the trouble to look carefully at things that were not necessary to him, being a closer observer of books than of faces, but he was none the less struck by the alteration in Clerambault's expression. "My dear friend," said he, "have you been ill?"
What were taken to be the polar regions appeared comparatively dusky. Similar observations were made at Nice by MM. Perrotin and Thollon, March to June, 1884, a lucid spot near the equator, in addition, indicating rotation in a period of about ten hours. The discrepancy was, however, considerably reduced by Perrotin's study of the planet in 1889 with the new 30-inch equatoreal.
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