Dear Mike and all,
I'm copying this to the list since Mike raises an important point.
At present we can't easily identify the specialities of ANY of
the early women Fellows. Some of them who were considered
in those days to be astronomers may have been working
on comets, meteorites or planetary observations, all of which
today fall into the RAS' "G" (geophysics) category. The committee
naturally expected me to look for solid-Earth/geomagnetism
early women Fellows, but I welcome, and will pass on, the
name of Annie Maunder (which is already listed in the minutes
of the committee) and any other early solar-terrestrial
geophysicists posted to me. I will recommend that they are
given equal prominence.
Sheila Peacock,
RAS Council.
FYI the first women to enter the RAS as Fellows in 1916 were:
Mary Adela Blagg
Ella K. Church
A. Grace Cook
Fiammetta Wilson
Margaret Theodora Meyer
Mary Proctor
Francisca Herschel
S. D. Proctor-Smyth
Kathleen Robson
Annie Maunder
On 12/15/2014 11:00 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi Sheila,
>
> On the external geophysics side, what about Annie Maunder, wife of Walter Maunder? Given her work with him on Sun-Earth connection, and his advocacy for women as Fellows, I would expect her to have been in the first wave. Or should this restrict to internal geophysics?
>
> See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Scott_Dill_Maunder.
>
> Best wishes,
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 15 December 2014 08:13
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> Subject: First female geophysicist RAS fellow
>
> Dear all,
>
> The Royal Astronomical Society is making plans to celebrate the centenary next year of the first admission of women as Fellows (members). The committee asked me for help to identify the first woman geophysicist to be accepted as a Fellow, since the records list only names, not the women's specialities or other affiliations.
>
> I am emailing to ask if people on this list can help, by thinking of the names of female geophysicists from the 19-teens, twenties and thirties who might have been Fellows. We can then look them up and see if they were or not. I could think of only Inge Lehmann and Bertha (wife of Harold) Jeffreys, but surely people on this list can do better.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sheila Peacock,
> member of RAS Council.
>
> PS the plans for the centenary are exciting - look out for their fruition in future RAS communications.
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