196 WOMAN IN SCIENCE 



In the Old World among the women who, during the 

 last few decades, have materially contributed to the pro- 

 gress of astronomy, either as observers and computers or 

 as writers, are Miss Alice Everett, who has done splendid 

 work in the observatories of Greenwich and Potsdam, 

 Misses M. A. Orr, Mary Ashley, Alice Brown, Mary Proc- 

 tor daughter of the late astronomer, R. A. Proctor 

 Agnes M. and Ellen M. Clerke, and Lady Huggins, of 

 England; Mmes. Jansen, Faye, and Flammarion, in 

 France; the Countess Bobinski, in Russia; and Miss Pog- 

 son, in the Observatory of Madras, India. 



In conclusion, it is but just to observe that women 's 

 work in astronomy has by no means been confined to their 

 contributions as observers, writers and computers. Refer- 

 ence must also be made to the financial aid which they 

 have given to various observatories and learned societies 

 for the furtherance of astronomical research both in the 

 New and the Old World. It must suffice here to recall the 

 endowment at Harvard University of the Henry Draper 

 Memorial, by Mrs. Henry Draper, in order that the work 

 of photographing stellar spectra, which occupied her hus- 

 band's later years, might be continued under the most 

 favorable auspices, and the munificent sum of fifty thou- 

 sand dollars given by Miss C. Bruce, of New York, for the 

 construction of a large telescope especially designed for 

 photographing faint stars and nebulae. The photographs 

 taken with this instrument will be used in the preparation 

 of the great chart of the heavens which is to be the joint 

 production of the chief observatories of the world. 



