MAPPING THE STARS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 148, 20 March 1934, Page 5

MAPPING THE STARS

A Woman Astronomer London, February 8. A woman has been awarded an honorary degree of Master of Arts by Oxford University for counting stars. She is Miss Ethel Bellamy, the astronomer, who has helped to fix the exact position of a million stars during her thirty years’ work at Oxford University. . ~ Forty years ago. eighteen ot the world’s chief observatories agreed to divide the sky up into sections and each to make a map of one section. Miss Bellamy’s uncle was working on Oxford’s share when she joined him in 1904. Between they they soon finished the Oxford section and then helped the Vatican observatory to complete their map. Miss Bellamy is now helping Potsdam observatory work out their calculations from photographs of stars. She is also busy recording earthquakes. Observatory stations all over the world send in the recordings of their seismographs to Miss Bellamy. She tabulates the statistics and makes maps to show the way in which earthquake shocks travel. She is now engaged in recording the shocks registered during the recent disastrous Indian, earthquake.—Beu ter. LEARN TO KNIT. Get “Wooieruft,” which gives simple and practical instructions for making all kinds of woollen garments—men’s women’s, children's. All best-known and now stitches explained. 96 garments illustrated. Send lOd. stamps to Batons and Baldwins Ltd., Box 1441W, Wellington —Advt.