Abelard,141,142.Abella, physician,286.Abrégé de Navigation, Lalande's,182.Academy of ancient Athens, admission of women to,10.Academy of the Lincei, Donna Caetani-Bovatelli, dean of,326.Academy of Science, French.SeeFrench Academy of Science.Acta Mythologica Apostolorum in Arabic, translated by Agnes Lewis,331footnote.Adams, (Mrs.) Abigail, quoted,100.Adams, Charles Francis, quoted,100.Adams, Elizabeth,344.Addison,98.Adelheid,52.Ægidius, quoted,282footnote.Æschines,13.Africa, Mary Kingsley's explorations in,257,258.Agamede, physician,267,268.Aganice, daughter of Sesostris,167.Agassiz, (Mrs.) Elizabeth Cary,255,377.Agassiz, Jean Louis,255,378.Aglaonice, the first woman astronomer,167.Agnesi, Maria Gaetana,78,79,105,228,230;knowledge of languages of,143,144;achievements of, in mathematics,144-150;charitable works of,148-151;exclusion of, from French Academy,393.Agnodice, physician,268,269,290.Agricola, Rudolph,62.Agriculture, English Board of,250.Agriculturists, women as,335,338.Agrippina,24,25; prose writings of,28.Albategni,169.Albert the Great,233.Alcæus, in praise of Sappho,6.Alcala, University of,68.Alciphoron,11.Alexandria, Hypatia's work in,138,199,200.Algæ, Dr. Snow's work on,254.Algarotti, Francisco,152.Algebra, taught by Hypatia,139.Alpine flora, Amalie Dietrich's collection of,243.Amazonia, explorations of Madame Coudreau in,259-261.Ambrosius, Franciscus,142.American Chemical Society,228.American Philosophical Society,228.Amoretti, Maria Pellegrina,77.Ampère, in praise of Émilie du Châtelet,151.Analyse des Infiniment Petits, by Marquis l'Hôpital,376.Anatomical models, perfected by Anna Manzolini,236;perfected by Mlle. Biheron,238.Anatomy, the study of, by women,236-238.Anaxagoras,12.Ancren Riwle,40.Andrea, Novella d',53,79.Andromeda,6.Anguisciola sisters of Cremona,61.Annals of Tacitus,28.Antelmy, Agnesi'sAnalytical Institutionstranslated into French by,146.Antiochis, physician,270.Antipater, epigram of,6footnote.Anytæ,17.Apelles,11.Apocrypha Arabica, edited by Margaret Gibson,330footnote.Apocrypha Sinaitica,330footnote.Apocrypha Syriaca Sinaitica, edited by Agnes Lewis,331footnote.Apollonius,Conic Sectionsof, Hypatia's commentary on,168.Apollonius of Perga,139,140.Aquinas, Thomas, quoted,297footnote.Arabic Version of the Acta Apocrypha Apostolorumedited by Agnes Lewis,331footnote.Arabic Version of the Acts of the Apostles and the Seven Catholic Epistles, edited by Margaret Gibson,330footnote.Arabic Version of St. Paul's Epistles to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians and part of Ephesians, by Margaret Gibson,330footnote.Arago,202.Archæology, museums of,309,310;women in,309-333;American women in,321-324.Archagatos,271.Archimedes,197.Archlanassa,10.Ardinghelli, Maria Angela,77,142.Arditi, Michele,311.Areometer, invention of, by Hypatia,200.Arete of Cyrene, teacher of philosophy,197-199.Arezzo, Leonardo d', course of study for women planned by,84footnote.Ariosto, quoted,6footnote,57;in praise of Vittoria Colonna,61,63,66.Aristippus,10,197.Aristotelian theory of difference between intellectual capacity of men and women,110.Aristotle, in praise of Sappho,5,10,197.Arithmeticaof Diophantus, Hypatia's commentary on,139,168.Arrighi, G. L.,364footnote.Art, achievements of women in, in Italy during the Renaissance,60,61.Ascham, Roger,69footnote.Asclepiades,271.Ashley, Mary,196.Aske, Robert, quoted,41.Aspasia, of Miletus,12-14,16,17,26.Aspasia, physician,199,270.Assisi, St. Francis,358.Astrolabe, invention of, by Hypatia,140,200.Astronomical Canon, Hypatia's,140,168.Astronomical Society of France, Dorothea Klumpke first woman member of,194.Astronomie des Dames, Lalande's,178,181.Astronomy, achievements of Hypatia in,139,200-201;women in,167-196.At Susaby Mme. Dieulafoy,320footnote.Athenæus,137.Athens, position of women in,3-5,16,18,19,199,414,415;culture of,404.Attica,198.Aucassin et Nicolette,275.Augustus, Emperor,19,24.Aurelia, mother of Julius Cæsar,22.Austen, Jane,98.Auzoux, Dr.,236.Ayrton, Mrs. W. E., achievements of, in electricity,212,230.Baker, Lady, wife of Sir Samuel Baker,374.Balzac,88.Barbapiccola, Eleonora, of Salerno,76.Bascom, Florence,254.Bassani, Signora, lace-maker,337.Bassi, Laura,78,79,147,148,203-209,210,211,212,298;birth of, at Bologna,203;Doctorate of Physics bestowed upon,204;letters of Voltaire to,207.Bazzani, Doctor,204.Beatrice,357,361.Beausoleil, Baroness de,238-240.Becquerel, M. H.,223,227,228.Beethoven,359.Bellini,66.Bembo, Cardinal,61,63;in praise of Elizabetta Gonzaga,67.Benedict XIV,78,147,148,203,204,228.Berlin Academy of Sciences,371.Bern, University of,304.Bernouilli, Jean,152.Bernstein, Dr. Julius, on intellectual capacity of women,133.Berthollet,216.Besant, Sir Walter, quoted,102-105.Bianchetti, Giovanna,298.Bianchetti, Maddalena,298.Biheron, Mlle.,238.Biology,245,254;as a basis for woman's equality with man,399.Biot,154,216;in praise of Sophie Germain,156.Bishop, Isabella Bird,256.Blackwell, Miss Elizabeth, physician,300-304,305,307.Bobinski, Countess,196.Boccaccio,197.Bocchi, Dorotea,298.Boileau's satire on Mme. de la Sablière,172.Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes, quoted from,106,107,108.Boleyn, Anne,69.Bollandists, on work of St. Hildegard,47.Bologna, Academy of Sciences of,207.Bologna, University of,203-210,236,296-299;in Middle Ages,53;women lecturers and professors in,57,78,79;Dorotea Bucca of,62;degrees conferred upon Maddalena Canedi-Noe and Maria Vittoria Dosi by,77;chair of higher mathematics in, given to Maria Gaetana Agnesi,78,148.Bonaparte, Caroline, archæological excavations of,311,312,317.Bonaparte, Joseph,311.Borghini, Maria Selvaggia of Pisa,76.Borromeo, Clelia Grillo, of Genoa,77,142.Bos, J. Ritzema,253footnote.Bossuet, Abbé,88,146.Boston, public schools of,99.Botany,256;Frau Kablick's studies in,242,243;Amalie Dietrich's studies in,243-244;cryptoganic,254.Bouchet, Jean, quoted,74footnote.Bovin, Mme. Marie, physician,293-295.Bowles, Ada C., quoted,346,347.Boyd, Ella F.,254.Boyd, Harriet,317;archæological investigations of,321,322.Boyd, Mary E., of Smith,195.Brahe, Sophia,170.Brahe, Tycho,170.Brain, convolutions of, as an index to intelligence,122,123;frontal lobe of, in man and in woman,122;gray matter of, and its relation to intelligence,123.Brain weight, relation of, to mental power,118-122,124-126.Brenzoni, Laura,58,59.Brescia, University of,62.British Museum,256,258.Britton, Elizabeth G.,254.Broca,116,126.Brontë sisters,98,114,115,264.Brosses, M. Charles de, quoted,144.Brougham, Lord,159.Brown, Alice,196.Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,114.Bruce, Miss C.,196.Brush, Mary,344.Brussels,229.Brutus,23.Bryn Mawr, College of,166.Bucca, Dorotea,62,79.Büchner,246.Buckland, Mrs. William,374,375.Buckle,384,385,386.Burckhardt,210.Burney, Fanny,98.Burnmeister,248.Bush, Katherine J.,254.Butter, Josephine E.,291footnote.Cædmon, influence of St. Hilda on,37,38.Cæsar, Aurelia, mother of,22.Caetani-Bovatelli, Donna Ersilia, archæologist,324-327.Caetani-Sermonetta, Duke of,324,325.Caius Musonius Rufus, on education of women,30,31.Calendrini, Bettina,298.Calendrini, Novella,298.California, University of,323.Calphurnia, letters of,29.Calpurnia,356,361.Cambridge, University of, funds from suppressed convents devoted to,41,42;exclusion of women from,80,100,230,330-333.Camoens,57.Candolle, Alphonse de,392,393.Canedi-Noe, Maddalena,77.Cannon, Annie J.,195.Canova, in praise of Suor Plantilla Nelli,60footnote.Canticle of the Sun, The, by St. Francis Assisi, quoted,359.Cape Observations, Herschel's,186,189.Carlyle, quoted,79footnote.Cassius, wife of,23.Castiglione,66,67;in praise of women,359.Catalogue of Eight Hundred and Sixty Stars Observed by Flamsteed but Not Included in the British Catalogue, by Caroline Herschel,186.Catani, Giuseppina, professor of pathology at Bologna,296.Caterzani,299.Catherine of Aragon,68,69.Cato, quoted,27.Catullus,5.Celeste, Sister Maria, daughter of Galileo,363-369.Celleor, Mrs., quoted,268.Celsus,174.Ceretta, Laura,62.Cervantes,57.Chantry, bust of Mary Somerville by,159.Charity, Sisters of,308.Charlemagne,39.Chateaubriand,256.Chatelain,289footnote.Châtelet, Émilie du,87;151-153;achievements of, in astronomy,175-177;as mathematical physicist,201,202.Chaucer, quoted,40footnote.Chemistry, women in,214-232;sanitary,218.Chesterfield, Lord, quoted,97.Chiavello, Livia, of Fabriano,59.Chinchon, Countess of,299footnote.Chinchona bark, introduction of, into Europe,299footnote.Chopin,359.Christian Inscriptions in the Irish Languageby Miss Stotes,316.Christine of Sweden,82,94,370.Church of the Household,31-34.Cibo, Catarina, of Genoa,59,60.Cicero,8;tribute of, to Lælia,23;Tulia's letters to,29.Cirey,201.Cité des Dames,106,107,108,109,134.Clairaut,152;work of, with Mme. Lepaute,179,180.Clapp, Cornelia M.,254.Clarke, Cora H.,254.Clavière, in praise of women,360.Claypole, Agnes M.,254.Claypole, Edith J.,254.Cleopatra, physician,270.Clerke, Agnes M. and Ellen M.,196.Codex Ludovicus, discovery of,328,333.Codex Nuttall,324.Codex Sinaiticus,328.Coeducational institutions, comparative standing of men and women in,128,129.Colonna, Vittoria,61,62,65,359.Colton, Rev. John, Agnesi'sAnalytical Institutionstranslated into French by,146,147.Columbus,56,380.Comstock, Anna Botsford,254.Comte,245.Condé,88.Condorcet,334footnote.Conic Sections, of Apollonius, Hypatia's commentary on,139,140,168.Connection of the Physical Sciencesby Mary Somerville,160,211.Considérations Générales sur l'État des Sciences et des Lettres aux Différentes Époques de Leur Cultureby Sophie Germain,156.Convent of Arles,36;of Poitiers,36;of St. Hilda,36;of Bishopsheim,39;of St. Rupert at Bingen,46;of Helfta,49.Convent schools,36,41.Convents, as centers of learning in Middle Ages,35-53;suppression of, in England,41,42;advantages of,51;influence of,51-53.Conventus Matronarum,