(Since that time all these things have improved.) "The last time I saw Mrs.Somerville, she took me into her garden to show me her rose-bushes, in which she took great pride.

Mrs.Somerville was not a mathematician only, she spoke Italian fluently, and was in early life a good musician.
"I could but admire Mrs.Somerville as a woman.

The ascent of the steep and rugged path of science had not unfitted her for the drawing-room circle; the hours of devotion to close study have not been incompatible with the duties of wife and mother; the mind that has turned to rigid demonstration has not thereby lost its faith in those truths which figures will not prove.

'I have no doubt,' said she, in speaking of the heavenly bodies, 'that in another state of existence we shall know more about these things.' "Mrs.Somerville, at the age of seventy-seven, was interested in every new improvement, hopeful, cheery, and happy.

Her society was sought by the most cultivated people in the world.