Between 1889 and 1899 she donated funds to the Harvard College Observatory (U.S.A.), Yerkes Observatory (U.S.A.) and Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Germany), run by Max Wolf at the time, to buy new telescopes at each of those institutes.
Catherine Wolfe Bruce, ameriška človekoljubka, * 22. januar 1816, New York, ZDA, † 13. marec 1900, New York.