Miss Leavitt, Harvard Astronomer, Dead

Miss Henrietta S. Leavitt, for more than 20 years a member of the staff of the Harvard College Observatory, died at her home on Linnaean street last Monday. She was internationally known for her work on standards of stellar brightness and on variable stars, and in the course of her astronomical career she discovered more variable stars than any other person has ever done.

In 1895 Miss Leavitt became a member of the staff of the Observatory, and with the exception of two years of travelling in Europe; passed the remainder of her life in devoted service to astronomy.