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...successful, they have no capacity for science. And he would note, also with a sense of awakening, that within the past few days Harvard herself has been honored by the degree in mathematics and astronomy conferred on her distinguished astronomer, "Miss Annie J. Cannon, by the University of Groningen. How much "gray matter" could have been missing from the brain of the woman who discovered three new luminaries in the sky, added 150 "variables" to the celestial map, and catalogued the spectra of 220,000 stars in all parts of the heavens? --Boston Herald...
Miss Annie J. Cannon of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory has received from Groningen University in Holland an honorary doctor's degree in mathematics and astronomy, in acknowledgment of her work in the study of stellar spectra. She is believed to be one of the first American women to receive such a distinction from a European university for scientific work...
University of Groningen--Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, Ph.D., D.Sc., h.'09, Professor of Astronomy; Director of the Astronomical Laboratory...
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, Director of the Observatory of Groningen; astronomer and organizer of scientific work; fit representative of a strong race, already glorious in arms, in art, in learning, and in adventure...