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48,49.Herschel, Caroline,159,182-190,362,377,379,383footnote;discoveries of,183,185;astronomical writings of,186;honors of,187-189.Herschel, Mrs. John, quoted,187,380footnote.Herschel, Sir John,159,182,186.Herschel, Sir William,182-185,185and186footnote,378.Hertzen,272footnote.Hetæræ, the,9-12,18,414;mistresses of French salons compared with,92.Hevilius,175.Hierophilos,269.Hill, Georgiana,Women in English Life,41.Hinckley, Mary H.,254.Hipparchia,8.Histoire d'Henriette d'Angleterre,91.Histoire des Insects de l'Europe, by Frau Merian,242.Histoire des Sciences et des Savants depuis Deux Siècles, Candolle's,392.History of the Art of Antiquity, by Winckelmann,311.Hôpital, Marquis de l',375.Horace,5,21footnote,113.Horæ Semiticæ,330.Hortensia,27.Hortus Deliciarum, by Herrad,48,49.Hospital, first, founded by Fabiola,272.Hôtel de Rambouillet,88-89.Houllerigue, M. L.,226footnote.How the Codex Was Found, by Mrs. Gibson,330.Howard, John,281footnote.Hroswitha,43-45.Huber, Mme.,371,383footnote.Huber, François,371.Hudson, W. H., on the dramas of Hroswitha,44.Huggins, Lady,196.Humboldt, Alexander von,160,188,211,216,256.Huschke,122.Huxley,251,371,377,387,388;on physical disability of women,127,128.Huxley, Leonard,388footnote.Hyde, Dr. Ida H.,254.Hyghens, Constantine,94.Hypatia,235;achievements of, in mathematics,137-141;inventions of,140;letters of Synesius to,141;achievements of, in astronomy,168;attainments of, in natural philosophy and astronomy,199-201.Icthyology,254.Iliad, translated by Mme. Dacier,82;quotation from,267.Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg,228.In Artem Analyticam Isagoge, by François Viète,363.In the Shadow of Sinai, by Mrs. Lewis,327footnote,330.Incarnata, Maria, physician,297.India, position of woman in,5.Insects, destructive, Eleanor Ormerod's study of,247;her famous leaflets on,249,250.Insects, microscopic, Anna Comstock's work on,254.Institut de Saint Cyr,83,85.Institutions de Physique, by Marquise du Châtelet,152,202.Instituzioni Analitiche, by Maria Gaetana Agnesi,78,144-150,228.Inventions of Hypatia,140.Inventors, women as,334-355.Isabella of Castile,290,380.Isabella of Spain,59,68.Isis, inventions of,335.Isocrates,10.Isotta of Rimini,59.Italy, women of the Renaissance in,55,57-68;women in, during the post-Renaissance periods,76-81;women mathematicians in,142-151;education of women in,210,295,296.Jacobi, Dr. Mary Putnam,128.Jameson, Mrs., work of, in Christian iconography,313-316.Jansen, Mme.,196.Jaquier, Père,152.Jeffrey, Lord,91.Jenner,299footnote.Jerusalem Delivered,276.Jesus College, Cambridge, nunnery of St. Radegund transformed into,41.Jex-Blake, Sophia, physician,269footnote,305-307.Johnson, Dr.,98,113;quoted,410,412and413footnote.Jonson, Ben,67.Joseph II of Austria,237.Journey in Brazil, by Mr. and Mrs. Agassiz,379.Joya, Isabella de,68.Juana, daughter of Isabella the Catholic,68.Julius II,309.Juvenal, quoted,20footnote,30.Kablick, Josephine,242-243.Kant, Immanuel, on woman's incapacity for mathematics,136.Kaschewarow, Mme., physician,304.Kelvin, Lord,227.Kepler,375.Kies, Mary,346;first United States patent awarded to,344.Kingsley, Charles,257.Kingsley, George,257.Kingsley, Mary H., African explorer,256-258,264.Kirch, Gottfried,173.Kirch, Maria,173,174.Kirchhoff, Arthur, investigation of, regarding intellectual capacity of women,129-132.Kirwan's Essay onPhlogiston,214.Klumpke, Anna,194.Klumpke, Augusta,194footnote,290footnote.Klumpke, Dorothea,193,194.Klumpke, Julia,194.Knight, Miss,351.Koenig,152.Kovalévsky, Sónya,133,161-165,397;weight of brain of,123andfootnote;studies of, in Germany,162;appointment of, to chair of higher mathematics, in University of Stockholm,162,163;Prix Bordinwon by,163.Krauss, Dr.,313quoted,317quoted.Kronecker, in praise of Sónya Kovalévsky,164.Labé, Louise,71.La Bruyière,108.La Caze prize awarded to the Curies,228.La Chappelle, Mme. Marie Louise, physician,293,294.La Condamine,262.La Cruz, Juana de,69.Lælia, Cicero's tribute to,23.La Fayette, La Comtesse de,88,91.La Fontaine,88,172,173.Lagrange,154,216.La Harpe, quoted,90.Lais,10,11.Lalande,178,179;in praise of Mme. Lepaute,180,181;in praise of Mme. Lefrançais,182.Lamartine,256.Lamennais, de, quoted,388.Lamy, M. Étienne, quoted,409,410.Landi, Rosanna Somaglia, of Milan,76.Langdon, Fannie E.,254.Lanzi, in praise of Suor Plantilla Nelli,60.La Perse, La Chaldée et la Susiane, by Mme. Dieulafoy,320footnote.Laplace,216,245.Laplace'sMéchanique Céleste, Mary Somerville's translation of,159,211.Lapse and Conversion of Theophilus, by Hroswitha,45.La Rochefoucauld,88.Lasthenia,11.La Vigne, Anne de,82.Lavoisier, Mme. Antoine Laurent,214-216,225,362.Laws of Plato,15,16.Leavitt, Henrietta S.,195.Lebrixa, Francisca de,68.Lecky, on dissolution of convents,41.Lefebre, Mme.,353.Le Fevre, Tanquil,82.Lefrançais, Mme.,182.Legendre,154.Legends of the Madonna, by Mrs. Jameson,316.Legion of Honor, decoration of, refused by Pierre Curie,227;chevalier of, conferred on Mme. Dieulafoy,321.Legrange,155.Leibnitz,173,202,369,370.Leland, Eva F.,195.Lemmon, Sarah A. Plummer,254.Leo X,59.Leontium,8,10.Leoparda, physician,271.Lepaute, Mme. Hortense,87,362;achievements of, in astronomy,178-182.Lepinska, Melanie,307footnote.Lespinasse, Mlle.,89,90,91.Lewis, Mrs. Agnes Smith, archæologist,327-333.Liber Compositæ Medicinæ, by St. Hildegard,278.Liber Simplicis Medicinæ, by St. Hildegard,278.Liber Subtilitatum Diversarum Naturarum Creaturarum,233.Liebig,217,247.Linnæus,300footnote.Lipmann, Professor,222.Literature, women in, in ancient Greece,1-18;in ancient Rome,27-30;achievements of Paula and Eustochium in,31-34;achievements of women in, in Italy during the Renaissance,58-62;women of to-day in,406.Livia,24.Livingstone, David,373,374.Livre des Fais et Bonnes Meurs du sage Roy Charles V, by Christine de Pisan,107.Livre des Faits d'Armes et de Chevalerie, by Christine de Pisan,107.Lombard, Peter, on equality of woman,47footnote.Lombroso,109.London Chemical Society,228.London, University of, attitude of, toward women,54footnote,207,288,305.Longfellow,316; quoted,379.Losa, Isabella,68.Louis XII,59.Louis Agassiz, His Life and Correspondence,379.Louise of Saxe-Gotha, Duchesse,178,179.Lungo, Isidoro del,361footnote.Luther, attitude of, toward women,75.Luynes, Mlle. de,82.Lyceum of ancient Athens, admission of women to,10.Lyell, Mrs. Charles,373.Mace, Hanna,195.Machina Cœlestis, of Hevilius,175.Macpherson, Geraldine,316footnote.Maintenon, Mme. de,83,84,85.Maistre, Count Joseph de, quoted,395,396.Malacorona, Rudolfo,285,286.Malatesta, Battista,62.Malvezzi, Virginia,298.Mangord, daughters of,54.Manning, Mrs. A. H.,352.Mantua, Marchioness of,310,311.Manzolini, Anna Morandi,236-238,298.Marburg, University of,294.Marcella,31.Marcet, Mrs.,372,373.Marchina, Marta,78.Margaret of Navarre,70.Margarita, physician,297.Maria Theresa, Empress,147.Marine invertebrates, Mary Rathbun's work on,254.Marine life, Sophia Pereyaslawzewa's study of,244,245.Markham, Clements R.,300footnote.Marlow,67.Marmontel,90.Marot, Clement,66.Marriage, intellectual development of women and,412,415,416.Martia,356,361.Martial, quoted,20footnote,28,30."Mary Kingsley Society of West Africa, The,"258.Mary Stuart,69.Masi, Ernesto,208footnote.Mason, O. T.,343footnote.Massachusetts Institute of Technology,217,220.Massalsky, Princess Helena Kolzoff (Doria d'Istria), traveler,255.Mastellagri, Maria,298.Matapi, the, woman's invention of,340.Materia medica,278.Mathematics, women in,136-166.Mather, Sarah,345.Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg,46,52.Matildas of Helfta,49.Matteo, Thomasia de, physician,297.Maupertuis,152.Maury, Antonia C.,195.Mazois, Fr.,312.Mazzuchelli, quoted,142footnote.Meaux, C.,288footnote.Méchanique Céleste, Laplace's, Mary Somerville's translation of,159.Mechanism of the Heavens, Mary Somerville's,159.Medaglia, Diamante,142.Medical women in Greece,267-271;in Rome,271-274;in England and Germany,290-295.Medical Women—A Thesis and a History, by Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake,307footnote.Medici, Michele,237footnote.Medicine, attitude of Italian and Anglo-Saxon universities toward women students of,80;women in,266-308.Medico-Chirurgical Academy of St. Petersburg,304.Melanchthon, daughter of,70.Mémoire sur le Feu, by Marquise du Châtelet,202.Memoirs on Chemistry, by Lavoisier,215.Memorial de l'Art des Accouchements, by Mme. Bovin,294.Menagius,137.Menander,10.Mendelssohn, Fanny,264.Mendelssohn, Felix,264,359.Mendoza, Doña Maria Pacheco de,68.Mercuriade, physician,286.Merian, Dorothea and Helena,241.Merian, Maria Sibylla, naturalist,240-242.Merriam, Florence,254.Messia Castula, duumvira,27.Metallurgy,238,240.Metaneira,10.Metcalf, Betsy,351.Meteorologico Ozonometric station at Rome organized by Caterina Scarpellini,192.Metradora, physician,270.Mexican National Museum,324.Meyer, Ernest H. F.,234footnote.Michaelangelo,359;Vittoria Colonna and,62,65.Michælis,312footnote.Michelet, quoted,70.Middle Ages, the education of women during,34-54.Mill, John Stuart,109;on intellectual capacity of women,134;quoted,381,387,397,398.Miller, Olive Thorne,254.Milton, quoted,99.Mineralogy,238,256;Herr Kablick's study of,243.Minerva,338.Mines, Denver School of,254.Mining, Mme. de Beausoleil's treatment of,240.Mitchell, Maria, achievements of, in astronomy,191,192.Molière,30,90; plays of,85-87;Femmes Savantes, andPrécieuses Ridiculesof,172;L'École des Femmes of,412.Molluoca,254.Molza, Tarquinia,60.Monasteries, as centers of learning in Middle Ages,35.Mondino,237footnote.Monographie de Turbellaries de la Mer Noire, by Sophia Pereyaslawzewa,245.Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, quoted,96,97;299footnote.Montaigne, attitude of, toward women,75.Montalembert, quoted,37,38.Montespan, Mme. de,84.Montesquieu, attitude of, toward women,93.Montmorency, Charlotte de,88.Montpensier, Duchess of,84,87.


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