Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming Bibliography Compiled August 9, 2011 by Maria McEachern

Bailey, Solon I. The History and Work of Harvard Observatory 1839 to 1927: An Outline of the Origin, Development, and Researches of The Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College together with Brief Biographies of Its Leading Members. New York: Published for the Observatory by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1931.

Brück, Mary. Women in Early British and Irish Astronomy: Stars and Satellites. Dordrecht [Netherlands]: London; New York: Springer, 2009.

Cannon, Annie Jump. “Williamina Paton Fleming.” Astrophysical Journal, 34 (1911): 314- 316.

———, “Williamina Paton Fleming.” Science, 33, no. 861 (1911): 987-988.

Chandler, S.C. “On the Observations of Variable Stars with the Meridian-Photometer of the Harvard College Observatory.” Astronomische Nachrichten, 134, no. 3214 (1894): 355-360.

———, “On the Harvard Photometric Observations.” Astronomische Nachrichten, 136, no. 3246 (1894): 85-90.

Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, s.v. “Fleming, Williamina Paton Stevens.” http://eaa.crcpress.com/default.asp (accessed 9 August 2011.)

Fleming, M. “A Field for Woman’s Work in Astronomy.” Astronomy and Astrophysics, 12 (1893): 683-689.

Fleming, Williamina Paton Stevens. Journal of Williamina Paton Fleming, 1900 Mar. 1 – Apr. 18: Curator of Astronomical Photographs, Harvard College Observatory. Harvard University Archives. Also online: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:666402. (accessed 5 August 2011.)

Gingerich, Owen. “Fleming, Williamina Paton.” Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. 5. Ed., Charles Coulston Gillispie. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1972.

Gordon, Anne. “Williamina Fleming: “Women’s Work” at the Harvard Observatory.” Women’s Studies Newsletter, 6, no. 2 (1978): 24-27.

HHT (Herbert H. Turner.) “Report of the Council to the Ninety-Second Annual General Meeting.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 72 (1912): 261-264.

Hoffleit, Dorrit. “Fleming, Williamina Paton Stevens.” Notable American Women, 1607-1950, Vol. 5, Eds., Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James and Paul S. Boyer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. Also online: http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/was2/was2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1000640916. (accessed 5 August 2011.)

Hoffleit, Dorrit. Women in the History of Variable Star Astronomy. American Association of Variable Star Observers: Cambridge, MA, 1993.

Hoffleit, E. Dorrit. “Pioneering Women in Spectral Classification of Stars.” Physics in Perspective, 4, no. 4, (2002): 370-398.

James, C. Renee. “Edward and Mina.” Astronomy, 30, no. 7 (2002): 46-50.

Johnson, George. Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005.

Jones, Bessie Zaban and Lyle Gifford Boyd. The Harvard College Observatory: The First Four Directorships, 1839-1919. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.

Lafortune, Keith R. 2001. Women at the Harvard College Observatory, 1877-1919: “Women’s Work,” the “New” Sociality of Astronomy and Scientific Labor. M.A. Thesis: University of Notre Dame.

Lankford, John and Ricky L. Slavings. American Astronomy: Community, Careers and Power, 1859-1940. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Lankford, John and Ricky L. Slavings. “The Industrialization of American Astronomy, 1880- 1940.” Physics Today, 49 (1996): 34-41.

Mack, Pamela E. “Strategies and Compromises: Women in Astronomy at Harvard College Observatory.” Journal for the History of Astronomy, 21, no. 1 (1990): 65-76.

Nature, “The Development of Astronomy in America.” 61, no. 1589 (1900): 574-576.

New York Times, “Harvard’s Accuracy is Asserted; Prof. Pickering Defends the Astronomical Catalogue Against Certain Charges and Inferences.” January 9, 1895. Proquest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007). http://search.proquest/docview/95244498/fulltextPDF/1311A0109AC5188DFAC/ 1?accountid=11311 (accessed 9 August 2011.)

Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia. The Dyer’s Hand. n.p.: Privately printed, 1979.

Pickering, Edward C. Forty-Fifth Annual report of the Director of the Astronomical Observatory Of Harvard College for the Year Ending October 31, 1890. Cambridge, Mass.: The University, 1890.

———, Forty-Ninth Annual Report of the Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College for Eleven Months Ending September 30, 1894. Cambrdige, Mass.: The University, 1894.

———“The Photometric Catalogues of the Harvard College Observatory.” Astronomische Nachrichten, 135, no. 3229 (1894): 217-222.

———,“Comparison of Photometric Magnitudes of the Stars.” Astronomische Nachrichten 137, no. 3269 (1894): 65-70.

———,“Comparison of Photometric Magnitudes of the Stars.” Astrophysical Journal, 1 (1895): 154-159.

———, Fiftieth Annual Report of the Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College for the Year Ending September 30, 1895. Cambridge, Mass.: The University, 1895.

———, Fifty-First Annual Report of the Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College for the Year Ending September 30, 1896. Cambridge, Mass: The University, 1896.

———, Sixty-Sixth Annual Report of the Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College for the Year Ending September 30, 1911. Cambridge, Mass.: The University, 1912.

Pickering, Edward C. and Oliver C. Wendell. Results of Observations with the Meridian Photometer During the Years 1882-88. Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, XXIV. (1890): 1-267.

Pickering, Edward C. and Oliver C. Wendell. “Errata in Volumes XIV and XXIV.” Discussion of Observations Made With The Meridian Photometer During The Years 1882-88. Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, XXIII (1899): 242-247.

Pound, Marc W., Bo Reipurth and John Bally. “Looking Into the Horsehead.” The Astronomical Journal, 125 (2003): 2108-2122.

Powell, Jennifer H. “Reaching for the Stars: A Century Ago, Women Astronomers at Harvard Made Scientific History.” The Harvard University Gazette, March 19, 1988. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/03.19/ReachingfortheS.html (accessed 5 August 2011.)

Reed, Helen Leah. “Women’s Work at the Harvard Observatory.” New England Magazine, 6 (1892): 166-176.

Schatzman, Evry L. White dwarfs. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1958.

Schnell, A. “100 Years Ago.” Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnate Pleso, 27, no. 3 (1998): 156-170.

Spradley, Joseph L. “The Industrious Mrs. Fleming.” Astronomy, 18, no. 7 (1990): 48-51.

Thompson, Grace Agnes. “Williamina Paton Fleming.” New England Magazine, 48 (1912): 458-467.