Born: 23 August 1847, United States
Died: 12 September 1927
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
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.
The Observatory at Wellesley was built and equipped by the enlightened liberality of one of the Trustees, Mrs. John C. Whitin. It has been completed but a few years and therefore, as yet, the record of its astronomical day is short. Special emphasis is laid here upon spectroscopic astronomy; the observation and mapping of spectra gases; the study of spectrum maps and finally the study of star spectra. In the uncertainty of the weather the study and measurement of photographs as applied to all the problems of astronomy is found valuable. The above work is included in the general course in Physical and Descriptive Astronomy of which Miss Sarah F. Whiting, a pupil of Professor Pickering of Harvard, is in charge. The mathematical astronomy is in charge of Miss Ellen Hayes, Professor of applied mathematics. The students in this department take appropriate observations and furnish data for their work in time latitude and orbits. As yet the professors have had no time for outside work, but the field open to them in the future is a broad one.