WOMEN IN PHYSICS 



societies of Italy, where from time immemorial women have 

 been as cordially welcomed to membership in its learned 

 societies as to the chairs of its great universities. 



The list of the women who in Europe and America are 

 now engaged in physical research and in teaching physics 

 in schools and colleges is a long one, and the work accom- 

 plished by them is, in many cases, of a high order of merit. 

 It is only, indeed, during the present generation that such 

 work has been made generally accessible to them ; and, con- 

 sidering the success which has already attended their efforts 

 in this branch of science, we have every reason to believe 

 that the future will bring forth many others of their sex 

 who will take rank with such intellectual luminaries as 

 Hypatia, Mme. du Chatelet, Laura Bassi and Mary Somer- 

 ville. 



