Noted Woman Astronomer Dies After Short Illness

Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, 77, for 30 years Curator of astronomical photographs at Harvard Observatory, died last night after an illness of two days.

Miss Cannon catalogued more than half a million stars while she was at Harvard and discovered more than 300 variable stars. She was the first woman to receive an honorary doctor's degree from Oxford University and also the first woman elected an officer of the American Astronomical Society.

Miss Cannon graduated from Wellesley and became an assistant to the astronomical staff in 1897 and was made curator of the Observatory in 1911.