MARIA MITCHELL. The names of women who have gained fame in art in literature and in advancing woman's work are numerous and well known. Science has its followers among.the gentler sex but among them the name of Maria Mitchell stands out clear and conspicuous like an evening star in the heavens she loved so well to study. In astronomy her name could be mentioned with that of Caroline Herschel and perhaps it is not too much to say that during her lifetime she was the most distinguished scientist of her sex in this country. She was born on the island of Nantucket on August 18 1818 where her father for many years was cashier of the Pacific Bank. He was a member of the Society of Friends and was prepared for Harvard College when the war of 1812 broke out. This interfered with his studies and he became a teacher. Meanwhile he developed a fondness for astronomy and for a long time devoted his leisure to that science with a rude tele scope built for him by a clockmaker. In later years he was able to provide himself with a well equipped observatory and continued his researches until his death. During many Tears he made systematic de terminations for the work conducted under the auspices of the United States coast survey and his son Henry Mitchell is to-day an assistant in that body. Maria was one of the oldest children and as has been shown inherited her fondness for science from her father. At first he was her only teacher and as a child she made such rapid progress in her studies that she was soon able to assist her father in his inves tigations. Later she studied under Charles Pierce and became his assistant in the school at Nantucket. While still a young girl her mother died and as she was one of the older members of the family much of the care of the home fell to her charge. At the age of eighteen she was appointed librarian of the Nantucket Athena3um which place she held for twenty years and it was her proud boast that she had regularly earned a salary from the time
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