A WOMAN ASTRONOMER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 11

A WOMAN ASTRONOMER.

''The death of Lady Huggins," says the Pall Mall Gazette, "deprives the circle of educated English women of one of its most illustrious members. Her marriage with Sir William . Huggins created a scientific partnership which can only be compared with that of Professor and Mme. Curie in another department of research. It was a singularly hajspy fato that led the child with a paßsion for astronomy to become the helpmeet of one of its greatest masters." - "After her marriage," says The Times, "she was to her husband what Caroline Herschel had been to her brother, an unwearied co-worker and assistant. Soon after her marriage Sir William btegan to make use of the powers of tho* photographic plate, and his wife's special employmont was to guide the telescope so that the image of the star should never wandot 1 for an instant from the hairliko slit of the spectroscope. "The next detail in which she proved of great assistance to her husband was her skill as a photographer. Further, her sensitiveness of eyesight and extreme accuracy in measurement was of first importance in the examination of the plate's after they were taken. "Lastly, the element of caution which was so conspicuous a trait in Sir William's scientific character was corrected by bit wifo'i admirable judgment and her powsr of quitt deoition.' f