Abstract
MARY SOMERVILLE (born Fairfax), long ago known for her scientific researches and long well known for her popular and educational scientific works, died in the neighbourhood of Naples, where she has lived for some years, on Friday, November 29, aged nearly 92 years, having been born on December 26, 1780. She belonged to a good Scotch family, her father having been the late Vice-Admiral Sir William George Fairfax, was a great reader, learned Euclid surreptitiously while quite a girl, and at the same period got up a knowledge of Latin in order to be able to read Newton's Principia, and was educated at a school in Musselburgh, near Edinburgh.
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