The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-18


telescope under the direction of Mrs.
Villa nina Fleming. Mrs. Fleming is a
native of Dundee, Scotland She came 10
this country twenty years ago and Sc
cured employment at Harvard as com
putor. being then a pioneer in the field.
Her responsibilities have steadily increas-
ed, and she conducts much important in
Vestisation, having discovered a number
OF variable stars and confirmed the dis
coVery OF several new stars 90 be accred-
tied TO her assistants, the Misses Leland.
Maury, Stevens and Wells Nearly all of
me discussions of photographs taken at
me Harvard Observatory and a its minor
stations maintained at places in the South
and West is done by women.
a practical calculator and astronomer
IS Mrs Alice Lamb Updegraff. who for
Two years had charge of the extensive
ume service of the Washington Observa-
tory and also made many observations
OF me minor planets and double stars with
4o-J-lnch equatorial telescope She di-
fected the time service at Che national
observatory in the Argentine Republic up
70 I6SO, and az the same time participated
IN the observation of a list of 4S0 south.
ern stars and in the reductions of the
same. Now she is translatng a German
thesis on astronomy and contributing to
current journals on mathematical mat
ters.
At the Yale Observatory.
Marguerite Palmer has done much COM
putlhg in the Yale Observatory and con-
uIouled several articles to the observa-
tory bulletin of transactions She has
computed definite orbit for the comet dis
covered by Maria Mitchell Up to a few
months ago Hannah Mace was assistant
at the United States Naval Observatory.
\ woman formerly chief conputor at the
PoodseI Observatory, Mortified, Mimi is
one of the associate editors of an astro-
homlcal monthly. Among the amateur 49,
tIonomers who have private observatories
Is MISS Rose O Halloran of San Francisco.
VINO makes study of eclipses. meteors
variable stars and general as-ects Mis-
Dorothea Klumpke of the same city is
one American woman who puts her ener-
gles 10 foreign service. She is now djree-
tor OF the bureau for the measurement Of
the plates Of the Astro- + Photographs Cata-
iogue at the Paris Observatory. of the
SIX women computors in the department
she is the only American. having become
ldentned with the observatory in 1887.
"hen she entered it as student Her ad-
Vahcement has been rapid and her OBJ
serVatlons of the minor planets and of the
lemple-Swift comet have been published
IN the French scientific journals 1t was
her remarkable thesis a the time of her
examination in 1893 that first opened the
way for the employment of women IN the
Paris Observatory
She Studies the Surface of the Moon.
Another woman computor and explorer
is Miss Ashley, who studies the surface
OF the moon. Her labors are regularly
recorded in the Seimographical Journal.
She is of the same name as the woman
drauShtsman who maps out the plans for
the improved philosophical Instruments
she uses, but the two women are no reIa-
ton, and they work with very different
tools, although tending toward the same
end.
Mrs. Coreita r. Davis is an independent
worker, at present engaged upon very in
tricate computations and reductions for
the benefit of Investigators. She com
putes latitude Investigations at New York
and Naples, arrives at mean epochs of
observations concerning the different
stars, and does work tending to facilitate
the labors of her husband and contempo-
raneous writer's. Similar credit is due
Mrs. Mary Ann Fellows, nee Hervey. Her
husband being director of the Royal OBJ
servatory of the Cape of Good Hope.
Either through removal or death, one by
one. Prof. Fallows' assistants left him I'M
I'll he was all alone when i'll and unfit
for work. His wife came to the rescue.
relieved him of entire responsibility. and
did observatory work without a flaw until
assistance could be secured. Proper assist
ance al the remote observatories is very
hard TO secure. There is record Of
an enthusiastic woman astronomer
VINO established private observatory in
the Far East, dying alone and deserted
by her entire staff of servants, who when
they realized her condition, appropriated
Whatever of personal and household pos
sessions they wanted and left her to fate.
Travellers long after discovered the story
in the relics found upon the mountain
top and the traditions as to the student
and her devoted hermitage. There are
many women occupying prominent places
as computors in the British observa tories
and one is director of the solar section
for the Astronomical Association and
studies ecliDses at various points. but this
article concerns American women and
mention must be made of Miss Proctor.
the successful lecturer on astronomical
subjects. and the various women directors
OF astronomy at the college observatories
Miss Sarah j. Cunningham is the only
woman director at a co-educational col
lese. For years she has been Identified
with Swarthmore. Miss Flora e Harm
ham, lately her assistant, is now engaged
with her on certain computations of as
economical interest. Helen Hayes, in
structor Of mathematics at Wellesley
published the orbit of one of the planets.
Mary Emma Bird directs the observatory
AT Smiths and Mary Watson Whitney at
Nassar as successor to Maria Mitchell.
Miss r. G. Wentworth and Miss Charlotte
H. willard are well known computors
ana contributors to current literature
concerning astronomical topics Twenty
five years ago Miss Ida c. Martin was
Director Rutherford's right hand assist
ant an the measurement of. plates and
an the earlier contributions issued from
he observatory at Columbia University
based on the Rutherford plates depend en-
tirely on her measurement The success
of women calculators and scientists re-
minds one of that pioneer stickler for
womans education, Emma Willard o.
Troy who in days when Instruments
We've crude and prejudces bitter against
womans learning. used to persist in her
observations Of the stars on cold winter
nights from the vantage ground Of d,
horse block with a blanket wrapt about
her. Olive T. Cpnh,,
FRAMES FROM OLD SILVER.