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I WAS very glad to see from Prof. Cockerell's letter in NATURE of Dec. 20, that scientific men now realise the importance of continuity in a woman's name. When I first married in 1911 and kept my own name I had to overcome the opposition of a number of the leading scientific people of that day, who bitterly objected to my utilising the laws of our country, which permit a woman not only to use her maiden name throughout her married life, but also retain it as her only legal name. The Royal Society even refused to continue a grant which I had from it unless I adopted my husband's name! So may I, as one who persistently kept her own name for scientific work (and has borne the brunt of the difficulty of doing so against an unreasoning antagonism), welcome and support Prof. Cockerell's suggestion that all women should do so?
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STOPES, M. The Designation of Women Biologists. Nature 127, 94 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127094c0
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