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The following is excerpted from What Women Have Done for Astronomy in the United States, written by Anne P McKenney and published in Popular Astronomy, vol. 12, pp.171-182 in 1904.
About six or eight years ago an astronomical bureau was started at Columbia University, New York City, under the direction of Professor J. K. Rees, Miss Flora E. Harpman, a graduate of Carleton College, but then an assistant at the Smith College Observatory, Northampton, Mass., was called there as head computer. It has developed until it is now one of the most trustworthy and accurate calculating and computing means in the country. Miss Harpman is ably assisted by Miss Magill of Swarthmore College, and Miss Tarbox and Miss Davis both of Vassar. Mary Tarbox published observations of minor planets and is now employed at Columbia University.