Royal Astronomical Society

In London the Somervilles enjoyed participating in a rich scientific community: Mary's time there was much happier than during her first marriage. She attended many lectures at the Royal Institution , and took lessons in...

AMC also wrote several smaller works on astronomy, including Modern Cosmogonies (1906) as well as The Herschels and Modern Astronomy (1895), which was published in the Century Science Series. From 1886 until her death...

On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences generated a particularly positive reception: it boasted an initial printing of two thousand copies; it ran to at least seven editions and many more re-printings, and was soon...

Mary Somerville and Caroline Herschel were awarded honorary memberships by the Royal Astronomical Society (until recently called the Astronomical Society of London). They were its first women members.

The Astronomical Society awarded its gold medal to CH for her Catalogue of . . . Star-Clusters and Nebulae, which, although unpublished, was accessible to and very highly valued by astronomers.

In old age CH was loaded with other honours, including honorary membership in the Royal Astronomical Society , along with Mary Somerville , in 1835. (Each woman said she felt it a particular honour to...

AMC was the fourth woman to be admitted as an honorary member into the Royal Astronomical Society .

MB 's surviving letters all have to do with her career in science. In the two about Lectures on Natural Philosophy mentioned above, she sought to increase the circulation of her writings. In one to...