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. See French Academy of Science.
Acta Mythologica Apostolorum in Arabic, translated by Agnes Lewis, 331 footnote.
Adams, (Mrs.) Abigail, quoted, 100.
Adams, Charles Francis, quoted, 100.
Adams, Elizabeth, 344.
Addison, 98.
Adelheid, 52.
Ægidius, quoted, 282 footnote.
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's Analytical Institutions translated into French by, 146.
Antiochis, physician, 270.
Antipater, epigram of, 6 footnote.
AnytÆ, 17.
Apelles, 11.
Apocrypha Arabica, edited by Margaret Gibson, 330 footnote.
Apocrypha Sinaitica, 330 footnote.
Apocrypha Syriaca Sinaitica, edited by Agnes Lewis, 331 footnote.
Apollonius, Conic Sections of, Hypatia's commentary on, 168.
Apollonius of Perga, 139, 140.
Aquinas, Thomas, quoted, 297 footnote.
Arabic Version of the Acta Apocrypha Apostolorum edited by Agnes Lewis, 331 footnote.
Arabic Version of the Acts of the Apostles and the Seven Catholic Epistles, edited by Margaret Gibson, 330 footnote.
Arabic Version of St. Paul's Epistles to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians and part of Ephesians, by Margaret Gibson, 330 footnote.
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, 84 footnote.
Ariosto, quoted, 6 footnote, 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.
Arithmetica of Diophantus, Hypatia's commentary on, 139, 168.
Arrighi, G. L., 364 footnote.
Art, achievements of women in, in Italy during the Renaissance, 60, 61.
Ascham, Roger, 69 footnote.
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 Susa by Mme. Dieulafoy, 320 footnote.
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, 253 footnote.
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, 74 footnote.
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.,

372.
Copernicus, 56, 189.
Corinna, 6, 17.
Corneille, 88.
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, 22, 25, 26.
Cornelia, wife of Pompey, 22.
Cotton gin, invention of, 351, 352.
Coudreau, Henri, 258.
Coudreau, Mme. Octavie, 256, 258-264;
books by, 263 footnote.
Courtier, Castiglione's, 66, 67.
Cramoisy, Marie, 82.
Cranial capacity, relation of, to mental energy, 115-117.
Crete, the Forerunner of Greece, by Mrs. Hawes, 322.
Crevaux, 262.
Crisculo, Maria Angela, 61.
Cumming, Constance Gordon, 256.
Cummings, Clara E., 254
Cunitz, Maria, 170, 171.
Cunningham, Susan, of Swarthmore, 195.
Curie, Mme. Marie Klodowska, 326, 333, 362, 394, 397, 221-232;
birth and early life of, 221-222;
marriage of, to Pierre Curie, 222;
scientific investigations and discoveries of, 223-226;
honors of, 227-232.
Curie, Pierre, 222, 224.
Cushman, Florence, 195.
Cuvier, weight of brain of, 119, 215, 216.
Cyrene, school of philosophy at, 197.
Dacier, Mme., 82, 83 footnote.
Damien, Father, 274.
Danophila, 7.
Dante, 117, 324, 325, 357.
Darboux, M., in praise of Dorothea Klumpke, 193, 194.
Daremberg, Dr. Charles, 234, 270, 287 and 288 footnote.
Darmstadt, Medical College of, 292.
Darwin, on man, 3, 113;
quoted, 124.
Darwin's Origin of Species, the French translation of, by Clemence Royer, 245.
Davy gold medal of the Royal Society awarded to the Curies, 227.
Davidson, Ada B., 254.
Da Vinci, Leonardo, 66.
Dawes, 191.
Decameron, The, 197.
De Compositione Medicamentorum, by Trotula, 285.
Deffand, Mme. du, 11, 89, 92;
Marquise du ChÂtelet ridiculed by, 177 and footnote, 178 footnote.
Deipnosophistoe, of AthenÆus, 137.
Delambre, 216.
De Lamennais, on woman's intellectual inferiority, 136.
De Morbis Mulierum et Eorum Cura, by Trotula, 284 footnote.
Demosthenes, quoted, 3 footnote; 10.
Denifle, 79, 289 footnote.
Denver School of Mines, woman principal of, 254.
De Orbium Celestium Revolutionibus, 189.
De Problemate quodam Hydrometrico by Laura Bassi, 209 footnote.
De Problemate quodam Mechanico by Laura Bassi, 208 footnote.
De Prony, in praise of Sophie Germaine, 154.
Descartes, 88, 94, 202;
doctrines of, 175, 176;
female pupils of, 369, 370.
Destouches, 86, 87.
Diaz, Porfirio, 324.
Didascalia Apostolorum in Syriac, The, edited by Margaret Gibson, 331 footnote.
Diderot, attitude of, toward women, 93.
Dietrich, Amalie, botanist, 243-244.
Dieulafoy, Mme., archÆologist, 317, 362;
archÆological expeditions of, 318-321.
Dieulafoy, Marcel, 318.
Diocletian, 272.
Diogenes, 10.
Diophantus, Arithmetica of, Hypatia's commentary on, 139, 168.
Diotima of Mantinea, Socrates' tribute to, 11.
Divina Commedia by Dante, 357.
Dock, Lavinia L., 280 footnote.
Doni Gasquet on dissolution of convents, 41.
Donne, Maria dalle, 79;
as professor of obstetrics, 209;
as surgeon, 299-300.
Dorat, Jean, quoted, 71 footnote.
Dosi, Maria Vittoria, 77, 298.
Dramas of Hroswitha, 43, 44.
Draper, Mrs. Henry, endowment of the Henry Draper Memorial at Harvard by, 196.
Dryden, 98.
DumÉe, Jeanne, 171.
Dunraven's Notes on Irish Architecture, edited by Miss Stotes, 316.
Dupanloup, Mgr., quoted, 396 footnote.
DuprÉ, Marie, 82.
Dupuytren, 294.
Early Christian Art in Ireland, by Miss Stotes, 316.
Eastman, Alice, 254.
Ecclesia Domestica, 31-34.
Eckenstein, Lina, quoted, 50 footnote;
on influence of convents, 52, 53.
École de MÉdecine of Paris, admittance of women to, 290.
École de Physique et de Chimie in Paris, 223.
École des Femmes, 412.
Edinburgh, University of, 228, 305;
opposition of, to women, 80;
Miss Ormerod receives degree of Doctor of Laws at, 252.
Education, during the Renaissance, 71-75;
in England, in the Middle Ages, 36-42;
in France, in the post-Renaissance period, 83-85.
Education of women in ancient Greece, 1-18;
in ancient Rome, 18-34;
in Greece and Rome compared, 26, 27;
in the Middle Ages, 34-54;
during the Renaissance, 54-75;
in Germany, in post-Renaissance period, 93, 94;
in England, in post-Renaissance period, 96-98;
in the United States, in the post-Renaissance period 99, 100;
changes in, in last three-quarters of a century, 102-105;
in Italy, 210.
Edwards, Amelia B., 256.
Eigenman, Rose S., 254.
Electricity, work of Mrs. Ayrton in, 212.
Eliot, George, 98, 264.
Elizabeth of Bohemia, 94, 369, 370, 371.
Elizabeth, Queen, 69, 70;
failure of, to provide for education of women, 42.
Elizabeth of Sweden, 82.
Elizabeth, wife of Hevilius, 175.
Ellis, Havelock, 117, 343 footnote.
Élogie Historique, Voltaire's, 152, 153.
Emerson, quoted, 105.
Encyclopedists, attitude of, toward women, 93.
Engineering, on trans-Siberian railroad in charge of a woman, 102.
England, education in, in the Middle Ages, 36-42;
prestige of abbesses in, 52;
position of woman in, during the Renaissance, 57, 69;
position of women in, during post-Renaissance period, 95-99;
women physicians in, 304-307;
feminine population of, 407.
Entomology, 256;
achievements of Missouri woman in, 254.
Entomology, economic, Eleanor Ormerod's work in, 247-252;
her publications on, 249-250.
Entretiens sur l'Opinion de Copernic Touchant la MobilitÉ de la Terre, by Jeanne DumÉe, 171.
Ephemeris of the Academy of Sciences, Mme. Lepaute's work on, 181.
Epicurus, 8, 10.
Épinay, Mme. d', 92.
Erasmus, 57, 68, 69, 73.
Erinna, 7, 17.
Erucarum Ortus, Alimenta et Paradoxa Metamorphosis, by Frau Merian, 242.
Erxleben, Dorothea Christin, physician, 293 footnote.
Espinasse, Mlle. de l', 11.
Este, Beatriche d', Duchess of Milan, 65, 66.
Este, Isabella d', Marchioness of Mantua, archÆologist, 65, 66, 310, 311.
Estienne, Robert, 71.
Ethnology, 323.
Euler, Leonard, 202.
Euripides, 12;
quoted, 3 footnote; 12, 13 footnote; 268.
Eustochium, 31-34, 357, 361.
Everett, Alice, 196.
Evolution, Clemence Royer's theory of, 246.
Explorations carried on by women, 257-263.
Fabiola, physician, 272-274.
Fabricius, 248.
Fairfax, Mary. See Somerville.
Fairfax, Sir William, 157, 211.
Fantuzzi, Giovanni, 205, 208, 237 footnote.
Faraday, 372, 373.
Fawcett, Mrs. Henry, 128.
Faye, Mme., 196.
Fedele, Cassandra, 59.
Feijoo, Benito Jeronimo, 110.
Felicie, Jacobe, physician, 289-290.
Feltre, Vittorino da, 58 and 59 footnote.
Femmes Savantes of MoliÈre, 30, 85-87, 172.
Ferrara, court of, 65, 66.
Ferrara, University of, 62, 79.
Ferreyra, Bernada, 68.
Fiorelli, 312 footnote.
Flammarion, Mme., 196.
FlÉchier, 88.
Fleming, Mrs. W., achievements of, in astronomy, 195.
Fletcher, Alice C., archÆologist, 322, 323.
Fontana, Lavinia, 61.
Foot, Katherine, 254.
Form and Rotation of the Earth, The, by Mary Somerville, 212.
Fortunatus, 36.
Forty-one Facsimiles of Dated Christian Arabic Manuscripts by Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson, 331 footnote.
France, women in, during the Renaissance, 70, 71;
women in, during the post-Renaissance period, 81-93;
mineral resources of, Mme. de Beausoleil's interest in, 239;
feminine population of, 407.
France, University of, 304.
Frankland, Percy, 376 footnote.
Frederick the Great, mother of, 370.
Frei, Frau Teresa, physician, 292.
French Academy of Sciences, 133, 146, 155, 201, 228, 232 footnote, 238, 326;
exclusion of women from, 78, 229, 230, 333, 377, 379, 383 footnote;
discoveries of, 183, 185;
astronomical writings of, 186;
honors of, 187-189.
Herschel, Mrs. John, quoted, 187, 380 footnote.
Herschel, Sir John, 159, 182, 186.
Herschel, Sir William, 182-185, 185 and 186 footnote, 378.
Hertzen, 272 footnote.
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, 21 footnote, 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., 226 footnote.
How the Codex Was Found, by Mrs. Gibson, 330.
Howard, John, 281 footnote.
Hroswitha, 43-45.
Huber, Mme., 371, 383 footnote.
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, 388 footnote.
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, 327 footnote, 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, 299 footnote.
Jerusalem Delivered, 276.
Jesus College, Cambridge, nunnery of St. Radegund transformed into, 41.
Jex-Blake, Sophia, physician, 269 footnote, 305-307.
Johnson, Dr., 98, 113;
quoted, 410, 412 and 413 footnote.
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, 20 footnote, 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 on Phlogiston, 214.
Klumpke, Anna, 194.
Klumpke, Augusta, 194 footnote, 290 footnote.
Klumpke, Dorothea, 193, 194.
Klumpke, Julia, 194.
Knight, Miss, 351.
Koenig, 152.
KovalÉvsky, SÓnya, 133, 161-165, 397;
weight of brain of, 123 and footnote;
studies of, in Germany, 162;
appointment of, to chair of higher mathematics, in University of Stockholm, 162, 163;
Prix Bordin won by, 163.
Krauss, Dr., 313 quoted, 317 quoted.
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, 320 footnote.
Laplace, 216, 245.
Laplace's MÉchanique 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, 307 footnote.
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, 300 footnote.
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, 47 footnote.
Lombroso, 109.
London Chemical Society, 228.
London, University of, attitude of, toward women, 54 footnote, 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, 361 footnote.
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 Coelestis, of Hevilius, 175.
Macpherson, Geraldine, 316 footnote.
Maintenon, Mme. de, 83, 84, 68, 69.
Morphology, cellular, 254.
Motherhood, intellectual development and, 415, 416.
Mozart, 359.
MÜller, John, of KÖnigsburg, 170.
Murat, Joachim, 311.
Murfeldt, Mary E., 254.
Murphy, Anna. See Jameson, Mrs.
Myrtides, 17.
Myrus, 17.
Nairne, Lady, 264.
Naples, school of medicine at, 297.
Napoleon, 155, 209, 299, 311, 313;
weight of brain of, 120.
Natural sciences, women in, 233-264.
Naturalists, Congress of, in 1893, 245.
Nautical Almanac, Miss Mitchell, compiler for, 191, 192.
Navarre, Pierre de, quoted, 45 footnote.
Navier, 156.
Navigation, Janet Taylor's works on, 161.
Necker, Mme., 281 footnote.
Nelli, Suor Plantilla, 60.
Newnham College, 100;
Jane E. Harrison's lectures at, 332.
Newton, 202, 207, 209, 371, 384.
Newtonism for Women, Algarotti's, 152.
Newton's Principia, 206;
Mme. du ChÂtelet's translation of, 152, 175, 176, 201.
New York Infirmary, 303.
Nicarete, 11.
Nightingale, Florence, 267, 274, 281 footnote.
Ninon de Lenclos, 11, 90, 92.
Nobel prize, in chemistry awarded to Mme. Curie by King of Sweden, 228;
in physics awarded to the Curies and M. H. Becquerel, 228;
won by Madame Curie, 394.
Noe-Candedi, Maddelena, 298.
Nogorola, Ginevra, 58 footnote.
Nogorola, Isotta, 58 footnote.
Nossidis, 17.
Nouvelles Observations sur les Abeilles, by FranÇois Huber, 372.
Noves, Laura de, 357, 362.
Nuns, Anglo-Saxon, 36-42;
German, 43-50;
accomplishments of, 51;
influence of, 51-53;
medical work of, 274-281.
Nur Mahal, 336.
Nuttall, Zelia, archÆologist, 322-324.
Nutting, M. Adelaide, 280 footnote.
Oclo, Mama, inventions of, 336.
Octavia, 24.
Odyssey, 267;
translated by Mme. Dacier, 82;
quotation from, 267.
On Curves and Surfaces of Higher Order, by Mary Somerville, 160.
On Molecular and Microscopic Science, by Mary Somerville, 160, 212.
On the Theory of Differences, by Mary Somerville, 160.
Opuscula of Anna Maria von Schurman, 95.
Ordronaux, J., 283 and 284 footnote.
Origenia, physician, 270.
Origin de l'Homme et de SociÉtÉs, by Clemence Royer, 246.
Orlando Furioso, 276.
Ormerod, Eleanor, economic entomologist, 246-252, 264;
entomological publications of, 249-250;
important positions of, 251, 252.
Ornithology, 254.
Orr, M. A., 196.
Ostia, Fabiola's hospital at, 272.
Otto III, 52.
Ovid, 5; in praise of Livia, 24.
Oxford, H. Rashdall, 288 footnote.
Oxford, University of, funds from suppressed convents devoted to, 41, 42;
attitude of, toward women, 65, 80, 100, 230.
Oxygen, discoveries of, 216;
discovery of, by Lavoisier, 216.
Ozanam, quoted, 55.
Padua, 296.
Padua, University of, Elena Cornaro Piscopia honored by, 77.
Palatine, Princess, 82.
Paleontology, Frau Kablick's study of, 242-243.
Palgrave, comparison of Milton and CÆdmon by, 38.
Pallas Athene, inventions of, 335.
Palmer, Mrs. Margaretta, of Yale, 195.
Paradise Lost, quoted from 389.
Paris, medical work of women in, 288-290, 292;
Faculty of Medicine in, opposition by, to Jacobe Felicie, 289.
Parthenay, Catherine de, 362.
Pascal, 82, 113, 140.
Pascal, Gilberte and Jaqueline, 82.
Passions de l'Âme of Descartes, 370.
Pasteur, Louis, 113, 114, 226, 247, 248.
Pasteur, Mme., 376, 377, 383 footnote.
Patch, Edith M., 254.
Patents granted to women inventors, 344-355.
Patterson, Florence Wambaugh, work in, 254.
Patterson, Florence Wambaugh, 254.
Paula, 31-34, 357, 361.
Pavia, 296;
University of, degree conferred on Maria Pellegrina Amoretti by, 78.
Peckham, Elizabeth W., 254.
Pennington, Lady, quoted, 98 footnote.
Pennsylvania, University of, 322.
Pereyaslawzewa, Sophia, biologist, 244-245.
Perez, Antonio, 68.
Perez, Gregoria, 68.
Perez, Luisa, 68.
Pericles, quoted, 4;
influence of Aspasia on, 12-14.
Perictione, 8.
Perugino, 66.
Petraccini-Terretti, Maria, 79.
Petrarch, 357, 358 footnote.
Pfeiffer, Ida, traveler, 255, 256.
Phelps, Almira Lincoln, 254.
Phidias, 12.
Philosophy, achievements of women in, in ancient Greece, 8;
Clemence Royer's books on, 245.
Phryne, 11.
Physica, 233, 234.
Physica, by St. Hildegard, 278.
Physical Geography, by Mary Somerville, 160, 211.
Physical power, relation of, to mental energy, arguments based on, 111-115, 127.
Physicians, women, in Italy, 295-300;
American attitude toward, 300-304;
See also Medical women.
Physics, women in, 197-213;
Clemence Royer's books on, 245.
Physiology, vegetable, Florence Patterson's work in, 254.
Pierry, Mme. du, 178, 179.
Pindar, defeated by Corinna, 6.
Pio Albergo Trivulzio, Maria Gaetana Agnesi in charge of, 149.
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women, by Elizabeth
Blackwell, 302 footnote.
Pisa, Leonardo da, 141.
Pisan, Christine de, 53, 106-108;
on intellectual capacity of women, 134, 135.
Piscopia, Elena Cornaro, of Venice, 77, 142, 143.
Planisphere, invention of, by Hypatia, 140, 200.
Platearius, John, 284.
Plato, 10, 11, 137;
in praise of Sappho, 5;
quoted, 11;
influence of Aspasia on, 13, 16;
on education of women, 15, 16;
on the seclusion of Athenian women, 26, 27;
ideal of, of equal rights for women, 399.
Pliny, 270;
quoted, 28, 29.
Plotinus, 200.
Plutarch, 22, 167;
quoted, 4 footnote, 95;
in praise of Cornelia, 26.
Poetry, achievements of women in, in ancient Greece, 5-7;
in ancient Rome, 28;
in the Renaissance, 61, 62.
Pogson, Miss, in the Observatory of Madras, India, 196.
Poisson, 154.
Polignac, Cardinal, 204.
Politian, 63, 73.
Political economy, Clemence Royer's work in, 245.
Polonium, discovery of, by Mme. Curie, 223.
Polydamna, physician, 267, 268.
Pompeii, excavations of Queen Caroline at, 311, 312.
Pope, 98, 113.
Porcia, 23.
Portico, the admission of women to, 10.
Portinari, Beatrice, 357.
Poupard, Mary E., 347 footnote.
Pratique des Accouchements, by Mme. La Chapelle, 294.
Praxilla, 6, 17.
Praxiteles, 11.
PrÉcieuses Ridicules, of MoliÈre, 30, 85-87, 172.
Priestly, 216.
Primitive Athens as Described by Thucydides, by Jane E. Harrison, 332 footnote.
Princesse de ClÈves, 91.
Principia, Newton's, Émilie du ChÂtelet's translation of, 152, 175, 176, 201.
Principia PhilosophiÆ of Descartes, 369, 370.
Priscianus, Theodorus, 271.
Prix Bordin, won by SÓnya KovalÉvsky, 163.
Problema Practicum of Anna Van Schurman, 95 footnote.
Procopius, 277 footnote.
Proctor, Mary, 196.
Proctor, R. A., 196.
Prodromus AstronomiÆ, of Hevilius, 175.
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane E. Harrison, 332 footnote.
Prony, 216.
Proudhon, 111, 245, 334, 338, 346.
Psalter, Latin, St. Jerome's version of, corrected by Paula and Eustochium, 32, 33.
Psychology, as a basis of woman's equality with man, 399.
Public affairs, woman's influence in, in ancient Rome, 23-25.
Pudentilla, 356.
Punch, quoted, 302 footnote.
Pusey, E. B., 113.
Putnam, Mary C., physician, 290 footnote; 304.
Pythagoras, 137, 197, 199.
Queensland Amalie Dietrich's botanical work in, 244.
Quintilian, Hortensia praised by, 27.
Quintus Maximus, 273.
Rabelais, 57;
attitude of, toward women, 75.
Radcliffe College, 255.
Radium, discovery of, by the Curies, 224.
Rambouillet, Marquise de, 88, 89.
Randolph, Harriet, 59.
Scarpellini, Caterina, 192.
Scarpellini, Feliciano, 192.
Scheele, 216.
Schiffi, Chiara. See St. Clara.
Schiller, 113.
Schliemann, Dr. Henry, 317, 318, 319.
Schliemann, Mme. Sophia, archÆologist, 317, 318, 319, 362.
Scholasticism, 233.
School of Athens, Raphael's, 141.
Schopenhauer, 111, 414.
Schubert, 359.
Schumann, 359.
Scipio Africanus, Cornelia, daughter of, 22.
Scott, Miss Charlotte Angas, 166.
ScudÉry, Madeleine de, 88, 91.
Scutari, 274.
Sebastopol, biological station at, 244.
Select Narratives of Holy Women translated by Agnes Lewis, 331 footnote.
Selenographia of Hevilius, 175.
Se-ling-she, invention of silk by, 336.
Semiramis, 341 footnote.
Serment, Louise, 82.
Servilia, 23.
SevignÉ, Mme. de, 88.
Seymour, Anne, Margaret and Jane, 69.
Shakespeare, 57, 67.
Sheldon, J. M. Arms, 254.
Shelley, 67.
Sidonius, Caius Apollinaris, 356.
Siebold, Carlotta von, physician, 292.
Siebold, Regina Joseph von, physician, 292.
Sigea, Luisa, 69.
Silkworms, Frau Merian's work on, 242.
Simms, Dr. Joseph, 120.
Sir Isumbras, 275.
Sixtus IV, Pope, 297, 309.
Skull, relation of size of, to mental energy, arguments based on, 115-117.
Slosson, Annie T., 254.
Small-pox, prevention of, 299 footnote.
Smith, Emily A., 254.
Smith, Sydney, quoted, 92, 413 footnote.
Smithsonian Institute, 323.
Snow, Dr. Julia W., 254.
Social and economic conditions, intellectual growth of women and, 405, 406.
Socrates, 199, 200;
tribute of, to Diotima of Mantinea, 11;
influence of Aspasia on, 12, 13, 16;
woman's equality with man asserted by, 15, 16.
Solomon, quoted, 336.
Solon, in praise of Sappho, 5.
Some Pages of the Four Gospels Retranscribed from the Sinaitic Palimpsest, by Agnes Lewis, 330 footnote.
Somerville, Mary, 157-161, 211, 391, 392;
early life of, 157, 158;
translation of Laplace's MÉchanique CÉleste by, 159;
honors of, 159, 160;
books by, 160, 211, 212;
home life of, 161;
election of, to Royal Astronomical Society, 188, 189;
achievements of, in astronomy, 190, 211, 212;
death of, 212.
Somerville, Rev. Dr., 158.
Sophia Charlotte, Queen of Prussia, 370, 371.
Sophocles, 12.
Sorbonne, lectures of Mme. Curie at, 227.
South America, Mme. Coudreau's explorations in, 258-263.
Spain, women of the Renaissance in, 68, 69.
Spalding, Most Rev. Archbishop J. L., quoted, 413 and 414 footnote.
Spanheim, 94.
Specialization in scientific research, 408, 409.
Spectator, 306.
Spencer, Herbert, 2, 113.
Spenser, 67.
Spiegelberg, Moritz von, 62.
Spilimbergo, Irene di, 61 footnote.
StaËl, Mme. de, 89, 91, 246;
Marquise du ChÂtelet ridiculed by, 177.
Stampa, Gaspara, 61.
Steele, 98.
Stephens, Mabel C., 195.
Steppes de la Mer Caspienne, by Mme. Hommaire de Hell, 373.
Stevenson, Sarah Yorke, archÆologist, 322, 323.
Stilpo, 11.
Stockholm, University of, appointment of SÓnya KovalÉvsky to chair of higher mathematics in, 162, 183;
SÓnya KovalÉvsky's lectures at, 164 footnote.
Stotes, Margaret, archÆologist, 316, 317.
Strindberg, 163, 165.
Strozi, Lorenza, 59.
Studia Sinaitica, 330.
Suetonius, quoted, 19.
Suidas, 200.
Sulpicia, 28.
Supellex Manzoliniana, 237.
Surgery, women in, 266-308.
Surinam, insects of, Frau Merian's book on, 240-241.
Survey of the Heavens, by Sir William Herschel, 187.
Suslowa, Nadejda, physician, 304.
Sviani, Elisabetta, 298.
Swallow, Ellen. See Richards, Mrs. Ellen H.
Swammerdam, 248.
Swetchine, Mme., 89.
Swift, 98, quoted, 98 footnote.
Symbols and Emblems of Early MediÆval Christian Art by Louise Twining, 316.
Symonds, J. A., 113.
Synesius, bishop of Ptolemais, 141, 168, 199, 200.
Tacitus, 24, 25, 28.
Taine, comparison of Milton and CÆdmon by, 38.
Taj Mahal, 337 footnote.
Tambroni, Clotilda, professor of Greek, 78, 79, 209, 298.
Tasso, Torquato, 66.
Taylor, Janet, 161.
Telesilla, 6, 17.
Tencin, Mme., 92.
Tennyson, quoted, 416, 417.
Terentia, 356, 361.
Tertulla, 23.
Thais, 11.
Theano, 8, 17, 199, 269.
Themista, 8.
Theodicy, by Leibnitz, 371.
Theodora, 359.
Theon, 137, 168, 199.
Thucydides, quoted, 4 footnote.
Thurm, Christopher, 174.
Tiberius, wife of, 24.
Tides of the Ocean and Atmosphere, The, by Mary Somerville, 212.
Tischendorf, 328, 329.
Titian, 61, footnote, 66.
TraitÉ de Chimie, by Lavoisier, 215.
TraitÉ d'Horlogerie, 179.
TraitÉ de Radio-ActivitÉ, by Mme. Curie, 228.
Travelers, women, 255-264.
Travels in West Africa, by Mary H. Kingsley, 257.
Treat, Mary, 254.
Trinity college, Dublin, 100.
Tristan und Isolde, by Godfrey of Strasburg, 276.
Trombetas, explored by Madame Coudreau, 258.
Trotula of Salerno, physician, 284-286, 296, 297, 299.
Tulia, letters of, 29.
Turgenieff, weight of brain of, 119.
Twining, Louise, archÆologist, 316.
Tyndall, 385.
Types and Figures of the Bible Illustrated by Art, by Louise Twining, 316.
United States, women in, in post-Renaissance period, 99, 100;
women mathematicians in, 166;
women astronomers in, 195;
famous women naturalists in, 253-255;
women physicians in, 300-304;
education in, 401, 402.
United States National Museum, 254.
Universities, of England, Scotland and Ireland, attitude of, toward women, 100, 101;
of Germany open to women, 101;
European, women as professors in, 102;
coeducational, comparative standing of men and women in, 128, 129.
Universities, Italian, attitude of, toward women, 57, 58;
women in, during the Renaissance, 62-65;
women professors in, 78-80;
attitude of, toward women, compared with that of Anglo-Saxons, 80.
Urania, muse of astronomy, 167.
Urania Propitia, by Mari a Cunitz, 171.
Urbino, court of, 66, 67.
Urbino, Duchess of, 310, 311.
Urbino, University of, 62.
Vaccination, 299 footnote.
ValiÆ, physician, 272.
Van Schurman, Anna Maria, 94, 95.
Vasari, in praise of Suor Plantilla Nelli, 60.
Vasca de Gama, 56.
Vasourie, 236.
Vassar, Matthew, 100.
Vassar College, 100, 192, 216, 253.
Vatican, 309.
Vega, Lopez, 68.
Veitch, Professor John, quoted, 382, 383 footnote.
Venerable Bede, quoted, 37, 38.
Verronese, Guarino, 58 and 59 footnote.
Vico, Father de, 191.
Victoria, physician, 271.
Victoria, Queen, 316.
ViÈte, FranÇois, 362.
Vigri, Caterina, 60 footnote.
Virchow, Rudolph, 117, 278.
Virgil, quoted, 112, 335.
Vis viva, views of Marquise du ChÂtelet on, 202.
Vita Nuova, by Dante, 357.
Vitalis, Ordericus, 285.
VivÈs, Juan, 68, 69, 73, 75.
Voet, 94.
Voght, 246.
Voiture, 88.
Voltaire, 89, 117;
attitude of, toward women, 93;
Émilie du ChÂtelet and, 151, 153, 178 and 179 footnote;
quoted 175, 206, 334, 346;
election of, to the Bologna Academy, 207;
letters of, to Laura Bassi, 207.
Voyage À la MapuerÁ, by Mme. Coudreau, 263 footnote.
Voyage au CuminÁ, by Mme. Coudreau, 263 footnote.
Voyage au Itaboca et À l'Etacayuna, by the Coudreaux, 263 footnote.
Voyage au MaycurÚ, by Madame Coudreau, 262 and 263 foot

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