A NEW STAR.
Another woman has won distinction in the world .of science, Mrs. Wilhelma Fleming, who : has just discovered a new star in Sagittarius. ; Sho is attached to the Harvard ' University Observatory, and has for ma"ny years specialised in the detection of stellae novae. ' Like some other eminent American astrono-. mors, Mrs. Fleming is a native of the British Isles, her birthplace being Dundee;'but she has been at Harvard for 30 years, and so long ago as 1887 made her first find of a new star.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 2 January 1911, Page 9
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87A NEW STAR. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 2 January 1911, Page 9
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