The End

[1] Throughout, I leave the various ambiguous comments from the younger contributors entirely untouched, since they are inevitably part of their style. The discerning reader will, I trust, take them with the proverbial pinch of salt.—Editor

[2] Thanks, pal! What about Jacky’s freckles? And your ears stick out, if I may say so!—M.S.

[3] As, indeed, are all subsequent chapters until further notification.—Ed.

[4] See my own previous comment at the end of Chapter Seven.—Ed.

[5] For a description of the baffling “Yellow Cloud” phenomena as seen from Earth, see the authoritative monograph The Planet Mars by the distinguished French savant, Gérard de Vaucouleurs, D.Sc., F.R.A.S., Attaché de Recherches à l’Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris. The monograph was published by Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1950, in a translation by Patrick A. Moore, F.R.A.S., of the British Interplanetary Society.