Mrs Fleming, who recently discovered a new star in the constellation Aquila, is one of Harvard's expert astronomers, has been connected with the institution since 1879 and has been curator of astronomical photographs since 1898. She is a native of Scotland. Several years ago she discovered another new star in Aquila.

It is not in Europe where one should look to see how women are on a large scale doing men's work, but in the United States, where the field is greater and the restrictions fewer. Some of these women have made international reputations. Mrs Williamina Paton Fleming, curator of astronomical photographs at Harvard University, is one of these women known throughout the educated world. Only recently she was honoured by the Royal Astronomical Society of England.

Although her work has been done in this country, Mrs Fleming is a Scot. She is the only woman who has ever been given an official position at Harvard, with the observatory of which institution she has been connected since 1880. Mrs Fleming has the distinction of having discovered more new stars than any other person. These new worlds are detected by photography. Photographs of the heavens are constantly being made at the observatory, and it is Mrs Fleming's duty to examine them carefully, catalogue and classify the stars. In this way she has found eighty-four new fifth type stars, while all other astronomers in the world have discovered only fifteen. She has located new variable stars and added eight new gar-off worlds to our knowledge of the universe.

A list of women astronomers would really be imposing. It is particularly a field in which women may enter without fear of success. Mrs Fleming has fifteen assistants, one of whom, Miss Henrietta Swan Leavitt, has won fame by discovering sixty-five new variables. Mrs Mabel Loomis Todd is another notable American woman astronomer, and Miss Mary Proctor, daughter of the late Richard A Proctor, is one of the most entertaining writers on popular astronomy of the present day. Miss Dorothea Klumpke is a native of San Francisco who has made her reputation as an astronomer in Europe. She has a reputation for photographing stars from a balloon, but her greatest feat was to have herself admitted as a fellow of the Paris Observatory. She is the only women who ever succeeded in preparing and successfully maintaining a thesis before the Academy, and having done so, the directors had no alternative but to admit her as a colleague.

Astronomy is one of the sciences in which few women excel, and Mrs Williamina Paton Fleming is one of the most famous in this sparsely occupied field. Her's is the rare record of having discovered more stars than any other person in the history of the world.

Mrs Fleming is a native of Scotland and first saw the light in the famous old town of Dundee in 1857. She inherits her tendency towards scientific research and exploration from her father, Robert Stevens, who was one of the earliest experimenters in the application of the daguerreotype processes of photography. Her early education was gained in her native town under the guidance of her father. For five years she taught school in Dundee.

It was in 1879, two years after her marriage to her fellow townsman, James Orr Fleming, that she came with her husband to the United States. Soon afterwards she obtained the position of computer in the observatory of Harvard university. Here she soon showed gifts of an unusual character and was given more responsible and arduous work. In 1998 she became curator of the astronomical photographs of the observatory and examined and marked the quality of the plates here numbering more than one hundred and fifty thousand. According to Miss Annie S Beard, "she has also prepared the Draper Catalogue, giving the class of spectrum of 10,498 stars. The results occupy two quarto volumes, twenty-six and twenty-seven, of the Harvard annals. By the painstaking, careful and minute study thus given to the photographic impressions of the stellar spaces she has developed an unusual facility in discovering new stars and has won the honour of being called by foreign astronomical authorities 'a brilliant discoverer'. She has also the distinction of being the only woman occupying an official position at Harvard.

"In examining the spectra of more than a million stars she has discovered eight new stars, only three such stars having been found by other astronomers during the same period of time. Of the rare class of fifty type stars she has found eighty-four, only fifteen having been found by astronomers throughout the world. Aside from the direct astronomical research accomplished by Mrs Fleming, a vast amount of work has been done by her in aiding in the preparation and editing of about twenty quarto volumes of the Harvard annals and other publications of the observatory."

Boston, Mass, May 21.
Mrs Williamina Paton Fleming, one of the foremost astronomers of the world and curator of astronomical records at Harvard university, died late today at Boston hospital.

Funeral of Mrs Williamina Paton Fleming of Harvard Observatory.

The funeral of Mrs Williamina Paton Fleming. curator of astronomical records at the Harvard observatory for the past 15 years, and famous throughout the world for her discoveries of new stars was held this afternoon at her home, 52 Concord Avenue, Cambridge. The services were of simple character. The Rev Joel Hasting Metcalf, of Winchester, a close friend of Mrs Fleming, and himself a noted astronomer, officiated. Prof E C Pickering and a large number of his associates at the observatory attended the services. The Harvard quartet rendered selections. Interment was at Mt Auburn.

Mrs Williamina Fleming Passes Away at Boston Hospital.

Boston, Mass., May 22.
Mrs Williamina Fleming, one of the foremost astronomers of the world and curator of astronomical records at Harvard University, died late Saturday at a Boston hospital.

Mrs Fleming became one of the most interesting personalities among the scientists of the world through her acuteness in the handling of astronomical photographs at Harvard University by means of which she had discovered no less than seven new stars and many new variables.

Mrs Fleming was born in Dundee, Scotland, May 15, 1857, and became connected with the Harvard College Observatory in 1879. In 1898 she was appointed curator of astronomical photograph and records. She was an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society of London and honorary associate in astronomy at Wellesley College. She had been ill but a short time.

Mrs Williamina Paton Fleming, one of the foremost astronomers of the world and curator of astronomical records in Harvard University, died in a Boston hospital.

Mrs Williamina Fleming of Harvard observatory, who died recently, was admittedly the foremost woman astronomer of the world. Mrs Fleming specialised in the scrutiny of photographic plates on which stars and nebulae had revealed themselves. She thus discovered many more stars than had yet been detected and added a great number to the list of variables. She was a worthy successor of Caroline Herschel and Maria Mitchell, who were observers, and Agnes Clerke, an eminent author of works on astronomy.

Mrs Williamina Fleming of Harvard observatory, who died recently, was admittedly the foremost woman astronomer of the world. Mrs Fleming specialised in the scrutiny of photographic plates on which stars and nebulae had revealed themselves. She thus discovered many more stars than had yet been detected and added a great number to the list of variables. She was a worthy successor of Caroline Herschel and Maria Mitchell, who were observers, and Agnes Clerke, an eminent author of works on astronomy.

1857 - Williamina P Fleming, Harvard's noted astronomer, who began by entering the Observatory as a temporary employee, born in Scotland. Died May 21, 1911.

1857 - Williamina P Fleming, who was employed by Harvard University Observatory as a temporary clerk and became one of the world's greatest astronomers of her day, born in Scotland. Died May 21, 1911.