, 1900-11-06
GIRL ASTRONOMER.
AN AMERICAN AT THE PARIS
OBSERVATORY.
Dorothes kiuInpko Employed by this
French Government =. Expert In TAX
ing Measurement of the Heavenly
BodIs.-First womsn Thus Employed.

There has for some years resided in
Paris a most remarkable American
family, consisting of a mother n
four daughters, Klumpke by name.
With a high ambition for the wise ed
~ucation OF her girls, Mrs. k'umpke
EFT this country some years ago, TAX
ing her young faniiiy first to Ger
many, and from thera 70 Paris &c COM
plete the studies she had un trtaken
for them. The eldest daughter de-
termined to be au artist, the second q
physician, the third an astro'L:' :r
and the fourth. WHO is a pupii o.
Ysaye. a violinist. "omen had stud
led medicine at VARIOUS times at Paris.
but none had ever Herved AS !nterle
in the hospitals, and Miss Augusta
klumpKe's plan 10 DO this was lnct
with persistent opposition. I'VE shall
do all we can" the doctors warr=t her,
TO prevent your entering" But she
and her sisters ZACH won a conspicu"
Gus success. Augusta klumpke, row
wife Of DR.. Dejerine. practices medi
cine In Paris. and is a collaborateur Of
her distinguished husband in science
and in authorship.
Anna Klumpke. the oldest sister.
studied art, became the intimate frierd
of Marie Bashkirtseff. and later of Rosa
Bonheur, whose portrait she painted
IA portrait which now may be seen
in the Luxembourg where only the
best of contemporary art is admitted.
Anna Klumpke now resides a part OF
the time at the Chateau de BY. which
was Rosa Bonheur's home near Fon-
tainbleau.
Julia Klumpke, the youngest dangh-
ter, is a devoted violinist. a promising
pupil Of Ysaye.
But 1t Is the third sister, Dorothea
Klunpke. whose portrait we print.
whose work il perhaps farthest from
the ordinary vocations Of In
4 recent Issue the Express printed this
paragraph: Miss Dorothea klumpke,
an American astronomer. employed reg
ularly by the French government at
the Paris Observatory, has been givea
charge of the balloon work. She as
cends almost daily. 1t was Miss
Klumpke who observed the recent
eclipse from a balloon manned by
Comte Castillion St. Victor and Man
ager Guiffroi, three Of the ablest mem
bers of the Aero club. They assembled
1000 feet. Miss Klumpke's experiments
are said to have been immensely valu-
able"
An article on The Klumpke Sisters"
in the September Critic gives al in
teresting review OF Dorothea Klump-
ke's career, which it says has been
even more remarkable than those Of
her sisters. She passed the baccalau.
reate and successfully tool all the ex-
Aminations in science and mathematics,
and then made application for admis
sion to the Paris Observatory. Some
German professor had given her as a
child a small telescope, and with this.
watching alone at night. she had seeu
sights which delighted her so that she
often reused her sisters, begging them
to come and share her pleasure.
THE directors of the observatory
consulted the statutes; no woman hld
hitherto proposed herself as a col
league, but there was no rule oppos.
ing It, they themselves approved. and
10 they gave her a telescope to make
her own observations, and after a tins
she completed the work begun by Nine.
Kovalevska on the rings OF Saturn.
which she made the subject of her the
sis, and when she had become doctor
Of science she was given a decoration
by the institute and made on Officer
de l.Academie. As soon as the Inter-
national Astronomical congress under
took cataloguing all the stars as far as
the fourteenth magnitude. a new de-
partment for the accomplishment of the