Lowell's request was turned down in 1991.

The search began in the mid-19th century and culminated at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell's quest for Planet X. Lowell proposed the Planet X hypothesis to explain apparent discrepancies in the orbits of the gas giants, particularly Uranus and Neptune, speculating that the gravity of a large unseen ninth planet could have perturbed Uranus enough to account for the irregularities.

In popular culture, and even among some astronomers, Planet X has become a stand-in term for any undiscovered planet in the outer Solar System, regardless of its relationship to Lowell's hypothesis.

Lowell's sudden death in 1916 temporarily halted the search for Planet X.

Constance Lowell, Percival Lowell's widow, subsequently embroiled the observatory in a long legal battle to secure its million-dollar portion of Lowell's legacy for herself, which meant that the search for Planet X could not resume for several years.

Lowell's greatest contribution to planetary studies came during the last decade of his life, which he devoted to the search for Planet X, a hypothetical planet beyond Neptune.

It won out over numerous other suggestions because it was the name of the Roman god of the underworld, who was able to render himself invisible, and because Percival Lowell's initials PL formed the first 2 letters.

Lowell's books on Mars expanded on this notion of Martian canals, and a standard model of Mars as a drying, cooling, dying world was established.

Clyde Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto in 1930 appeared to validate Lowell's hypothesis, and Pluto was officially considered the ninth planet until 2006.

" In 1931, Ernest W. Brown asserted, using a mathematical formula, that the observed irregularities in the orbit of Uranus could not be due to the gravitational effect of a more distant planet, and thus that Lowell's supposed prediction was " purely accidental.

He was replaced with Matt Odmark, Lowell's childhood friend and fellow McQuaid Jesuit High School alum.

Robert Lowell's Flying from Bangor to Rio 1957 was written at the poet's summer house in nearby Castine, Maine about the experience of seeing off his friend, the poet Elizabeth Bishop at the Bangor Airport.

In 2008, the violent crime Rate for Lowell was 1, 126. 3 per 100, 000 of the population, ranking it the 7th most violent city in Massachusetts right ahead of Boston with 1, 104 per 100, 000 .. Lowell's crime rate has dropped tremendously since the 1990's

By the turn of the 20th century, Lowell's fortunes began to decline as river trade was replaced by the railroads and later automobiles.

Other exhibits include a working streetcar line, canal boat tours exploring some of the city's gatehouses and locks, and the River Transformed / Suffolk Mill Turbine Exhibit, which shows how water power, namely the Francis Turbine, was once used to run Lowell's textile factories.

The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843.

This depiction of the dialect, as well as Lowell's many satires, was an inspiration to writers like Mark Twain and H. L.

A Fable for Critics, one of Lowell's most popular works, was published in 1848.

Dunlap, niece of the former governor of Maine Robert P. Dunlap, was a friend of Lowell's first wife and formerly wealthy, though she and her family had fallen into reduced circumstances.

Lowell's reviews for the journal covered a wide variety of literary releases of the day, though he was writing fewer poems.

Early in his career, James Russell Lowell's writing was influenced by Swedenborgianism, a Spiritualism-infused form of Christianity founded by Emanuel Swedenborg, causing Frances Longfellow ( wife of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ) to mention that " he has been long in the habit of seeing spirits.

Although he was an abolitionist, Lowell's opinions on African-Americans wavered.

There are many references to Lowell's drinking during his college years and part of his reputation in school was based on it.

" Modern literary critic Van Wyck Brooks wrote that Lowell's poetry was forgettable: " one read them five times over and still forgot them, as if this excellent verse had been written in water.

Lowell's early poetry was particularly influenced by Tate's formalist brand of Modernism.

In a 1962 interview with Peter Orr, Sylvia Plath specifically cited Lowell's book Life Studies as having had a profound influence over the poetry she was writing at that time ( and which her husband would publish posthumously as Ariel a few years later ), stating, " I've been very excited by what I feel is the new breakthrough that came with, say, Robert Lowell's Life Studies, this intense breakthrough into very serious, very personal, emotional experience which I feel has been partly taboo.

The editor of Lowell's Letters, Saskia Hamilton notes, " Lithium treatment relieved him from suffering the idea that he was morally and emotionally responsible for the fact that he relapsed.

Additionally, the park includes the Patrick J Mogan Cultural Center, which focuses on the lives of Lowell's many generations of immigrants.

In April 1892 he delivered at Baltimore his eleventh annual address as president of the National Civil Service Reform League, and in May he appeared for the last time in public, to repeat in New York an address on James Russell Lowell, which he had first delivered in Brooklyn on the 22nd of the preceding February, the anniversary of Lowell's birth.

The best known poem in this volume is " Waking Early Sunday Morning ," which was written in eight-line tetrameter stanzas ( borrowed from Andrew Marvell's poem " Upon Appleton House ") and showed contemporary American politics overtly entering into Lowell's work.

Lowell referred to these fourteen-line poems as sonnets although they sometimes failed to incorporate regular meter and never incorporated rhyme ( both of which are defining features of the sonnet form ); however, some of Lowell's sonnets ( particularly the ones in Notebook 1967-1968 ) were written in blank verse with a definitive pentameter.

In 1900, Lowell succeeded his father as Trustee of the Lowell Institute, which Lowell's great-grandfather founded to subsidize public lectures and popular education programs.

Also among the new campus buildings of Lowell's tenure was the President's House ( later called Loeb House ) at 17 Quincy Street, which Lowell commissioned from his cousin Guy Lowell.

After Time Loves A Hero and before the Down on the Farm sessions, Little Feat were used as the backing band for Robert Palmer's album Pressure Drop, which featured his cover version of Lowell's song " Trouble.

The season turned out to be one of Lowell's best, in which he set career bests in hits, RBI, batting average, OPS, and played a key role in helping the Red Sox win their second World Series in four years.

However, Burroughs does not seem to have based his vision of Mars on precise reading of Lowell's theories, as there are a number of errors in his interpretation which suggest he may have got most of his information from reading newspaper articles and other popular accounts of Lowell's Mars.

It is through John Lowell's daughter-in-law, the wife of Francis Cabot, Hannah Jackson ( 1776 – 1815 ), who was a granddaughter of Edward and Dorthy ( Quincy ) Jackson, that descendants of both the Francis Cabot and John Amory families claim relation to the Holmeses of Boston, which include poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and U. S. Supreme Court Justice and Civil War hero Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr ..

Each ArtsFirst weekend, the first weekend in May, there is a courtyard performance of the 1812 Overture, during which those not part of the official orchestral ensemble are encouraged to assist on kazoos ; in lieu of cannon, hydrogen-filled balloons are ignited by the House chemistry tutor ; and until recently ( see below ) the performance would climax with the role originally scored by Tchaikovsky for authentic Russian zvon ( a set of bells similar to a carillon ), being played ( appropriately enough ) by Lowell's own authentic Russian zvon.

That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.

To finance it, he sold off more of Elmwood's acres and rented the house to Thomas Bailey Aldrich ; Lowell's daughter Mabel, by this time, had moved into a new home with her husband Edward Burnett, the son of a successful businessman-farmer from Southboro, Massachusetts.

Lowell's poem " The Present Crisis ," an early work that addressed the national crisis over slavery leading up to the Civil War, has had an impact in the modern civil rights movement.

Lowell had a close friendship with the poet Elizabeth Bishop that lasted from 1947 until Lowell's death in 1977.

One of Lowell's foremost citizens, Allen had a very active business and political career as well as being an artist, musician, and cabinet-maker.

Lowell's appointment was generally well received, for though he had controversy in his past he had also at times demonstrated an independent streak.

Lowell's construction projects, some based on the Freshman Halls and the College system, but including Widener Library, the Memorial Church and many others, had transformed the university's infrastructure.

Having Lowell write the introduction to the book was appropriate, since, in a BBC Interview, Plath cited Lowell's book Life Studies as having had a profound influence over the poetry she was writing in this last phase of her writing career.

The trust – or Lowell Institute, as it came to be known – had an unusual mode of governance: a single trustee who was empowered to appoint his successor and who was, in the language of Lowell's will, " always choose in preference to all others some male descendant of my grandfather, John Lowell, provided there be one who is competent to hold the office of trustee, and of the name of Lowell " ( Everett 1840 ).