Women who submitted papers to the Royal Society after 1853: a sample

The first papers by women known to be published by the Royal Society are those by Caroline Herschel (1786) and Mary Somerville (1826) - though a letter by Ann Savile had appeared within a paper by Tancred Robinson in 1696.The list in this spreadsheet provides some insight into the women who submitted papers to the Royal Society of London after Herschel and Somerville. It has been generated from a partial transcription of the Royal Society's 'Register of Papers', undertaken by Aileen Fyfe's project team at the University of St Andrews.The Register of Papers begins in 1853, and records all papers SUBMITTED to the Society's journals, the Philosophical Transactions and the Proceedings. We transcribed all entries fronm 1853 to 1890, and thereafter transcribed two sample years per decade (ending in -0 and -5). This is NOT a list of all women authors at the Royal Society: it records the names of authors who SUBMITTED papers to the Royal Society's journals during the transcribed SAMPLE years. It gives a good indication of all women authors in the late 19thC, but is simply an illustrative sample for the 20thC<b>Caveats</b>The Register of Papers starts in 1853. We transcribed everything from 1853 to 1890. Thereafter, everything in two sample years per decade, ending in -0 and -5.Not all of these submitted papers were approved for publicationAttribution of gender was done retrospectively by our team, based on the presence of titles (e.g. Miss, Mrs) or by human recognition of forenames. There may be more women authors out there (e.g. hidden behind initials)The list is organised to show unique women authors - so if two women co-authored a paper, there are two entries for a single paper (one for each woman author)Year = year of submission of paper to RS, not necessarily year of publicationAll papers had to be submitted by a Fellow (until 1990), so if there was no Fellow as co-author, there had to be a Fellow acting as 'communicator' (all Fellows were male until 1945)Author 'identifiers' are (where possible) the Royal Society's fellows identifiers (starting NA…)

目前已知由英国皇家学会（Royal Society）刊发的首篇女性作者论文，分别出自卡罗琳·赫歇尔（Caroline Herschel，1786年）与玛丽·萨默维尔（Mary Somerville，1826年）——不过早在1696年，安·萨维尔（Ann Savile）的一封信便曾附于坦克雷德·鲁滨逊（Tancred Robinson）的论文之中。

本电子表格中的名录，旨在展现赫歇尔与萨默维尔之后向伦敦皇家学会投稿的女性作者群体概况。该名录基于圣安德鲁斯大学（University of St Andrews）艾琳·费尔（Aileen Fyfe）项目团队对皇家学会《论文登记册》（Register of Papers）的部分转录工作制作而成。

《论文登记册》（Register of Papers）始于1853年，记录了所有提交至学会旗下《哲学汇刊》（Philosophical Transactions）与《学报》（Proceedings）的论文。我们完整转录了1853年至1890年的全部条目，1890年之后则按每十年抽取两个以-0和-5结尾的样本年份进行转录。本名录并非皇家学会所有女性作者的完整清单，仅收录了在上述转录样本年份内向皇家学会期刊投稿的作者姓名。该名录能够较好地反映19世纪后期的女性作者概况，但对于20世纪而言仅为示例性样本。

### 注意事项
1. 《论文登记册》（Register of Papers）始于1853年，我们完整转录了1853年至1890年的全部条目。1890年之后，每十年仅抽取以-0和-5结尾的两个年份进行转录。
2. 并非所有提交的论文均获刊发许可。
3. 性别归因工作由本团队回溯完成，依据为称谓（如"小姐""夫人"）或通过姓名的性别辨识度进行判断。实际可能存在更多未被识别的女性作者（例如姓名仅以首字母缩写呈现的情况）。
4. 本名录按唯一女性作者进行整理：若两位女性共同署名一篇论文，则该论文会对应两条条目，分别标注两位女性作者。
5. 标注的年份为论文提交至皇家学会的年份，未必等同于正式刊发年份。
6. 直至1990年，所有论文均需由学会会士（Fellow）提交。因此若无会士作为共同作者，则必须有会士担任"沟通者"角色——1945年之前，所有学会会士均为男性。
7. 作者"标识符"在可行范围内采用皇家学会的会士标识符（格式以NA…开头）。