HathiTrust, Scientific American, IOPscience, 2026-10-08

HathiTrust catalog [https://catalog.hathitrust.org]

• Scripted fetch: Cloudflare page. In Chrome: query author "Larkin, Edgar Lucien" -> "No results" (author heading probably differs); query all fields Edgar Lucien Larkin -> page loaded but the extension could read no text (empty innerText). Result: partial (blocked to the tools). Recheck with full-text search (babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls) for "Larkin" "Lowe Observatory" and for The Electrical Engineer vol. 14 (1892).

Scientific American author page [web: https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/edgar-lucien-larkin/]

Listed articles by Larkin (titles only; paywalled, not read): - "Signaling to Mars", 19 Jun 1909 - "The Lowe Observatory on Echo Mountain, California, U.S.A.", 12 Feb 1910 - "Gigantic Abyss in the Great Nebula in Orion", Sci. Am. Supplement 69 no.1784, 12 Mar 1910, pp.175-176 - "The Motions of the Earth: the twenty-three influences to which the earth is subjected", 4 Jun 1910 - "The Mount Wilson Conference: the International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research", 24 Sep 1910 Bearing: the Orion "abyss" article continues the stellar-floor/"rents" observations (claim 5) into 1910; it was later quoted widely in religious literature as the "open space in Orion" (Google hits: stepstolife.org, creationismonline.com, angusmcphee.wordpress.com), a reception history, not evidence about the sky.

IOPscience, PASP [web: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/121462]

"General Notes", PASP 14 no.82 (1902) p.26, free article. Text read from the archive.org JSTOR copy (jstor-40668215; see research/2026-10-08-internet-archive.md).