Frances Cave told me that once, while she was being taught by William Young, he kept tilting his chair until it slipped and he went under the table. With great difficulty she and the others refrained from laughing. He then got up and all he said was, "Take out a fresh sheet of paper."

... encourage advanced and research work and thus to show the world that women mean to do serious work and have higher aims in view than mere success in examination.

In a memoir on the correlation and variation of the barometric height at divers stations in the British Isles by Professor Karl Pearson and Dr Alice Lee, it is suggested (i) that interesting results might be obtained by correlating the barometer at stations on the east and west sides of the Atlantic, allowing an interval of time between the observations, and (ii) that with a certain distance between stations, the correlation would be found to be negative, i.e., a high barometer at the one station corresponding to a low barometer at the second. In order to deal with these points, steps were taken in 1897 to collect the necessary material. Twenty years, 1879-1898 inclusive, were selected for consideration, and the early morning barometric observations for these years, copied from material provided by the kindness of the British Meteorological Office for the following East Atlantic stations:- Bødø, Florø, Skudesnaes, Valencia, Lisbon, and Funchal. These give a very fair chain of stations from the north of Norway to Madeira. On the west side of the Atlantic we obtained data for the same years for Halifax and Toronto by aid of the Director of the Canadian Meteorological Service.

... were among six collaborators who worked on a large scale study of child development, overseen by Pearson, that analysed data collected from over 4000 children, including some of Beatrice's high school students. Their part-time work for the biometrics Lab was uncompensated until a grant established in 1904 by the Worshipful Company of Drapers allowed Pearson to provide his assistants with small stipends.

The project collected physical measurements and character assessments from 4000 children and their parents in order to establish evidence of the inheritance of what Pearson called "moral qualities," attributes that we would now identify as aspects of intelligence or personality. Both sisters Cave-Browne-Cave were among the six collaborators who worked on the project. ... [Pearson's] collaborators gathered the data by measuring and observing the children. ... Only a few assistants, including Frances and Beatrice Cave-Browne-Cave, processed the data, creating tables, and computing correlations.

An investigation of the relationship of the daily barometric heights on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean has been in progress for some years, and in a preliminary note by Professor Pearson and myself some account was given of the contemporaneous relationship of a chain of stations from the extreme north of Norway down the west coasts of Europe and Africa. Observations for this east side of the Atlantic have now been copied for twenty years, as far as stations are available from Norway to the Cape, and the only need here is more aid in the very laborious reductions necessary before any inferences can be drawn. A similar chain of stations from Nova Scotia to the Falkland Isles has been completed, with the exception of Brazil, from which, so far, we have been able to obtain no data whatever.

In a notice [published in 'Nature'] of an address by Dr Hoffman, the words are used: "Imagination is what the mathematician is ever trying to get rid of." As such misconceptions as this are unfortunately rather widespread, it may be useful to protest against them. Imagination is essential to mathematics. The work of the great mathematicians affords many striking examples of creative imagination, and for the proper understanding and appreciation of even the elementary parts of the subject the use of imagination is necessary. One of the most important qualities of a good mathematical teacher is the power of stimulating the pupils' imagination, and it is, perhaps, the neglect of this faculty by some teachers which is responsible for the dullness and lifelessness of what is too often taught in schools under the name of mathematics.

During discussions concerning his academic appointment in 1930, Thomas [Evelyn's brother] confirmed that his sister believed the primary function of a university was to teach, and that trouble taken with weaker students was more rewarding because one could make a proportionately greater improvement. Evelyn was a gifted teacher who was especially talented in helping less able students: a stammer that affected her normal speech completely disappeared when she was teaching.

SIR, - I protest most strongly against your suggestion that Mallock's "portrait" in 'The New Republic' is only a distortion and not a falsification of Clifford's attitude. Anyone who compares the 'Lectures and Essays' with 'The New Republic' can easily see the fundamental difference between Clifford and Mr Saunders. Yours, etc., F E Cave.

Cavey, as she was sometimes affectionately known, was an archetypal Girtonian of austere and old-fashioned tastes. She was fond of gardening and a former student particularly remembered the zest with which she chopped wood for her sitting-room fire. She was mainly responsible for drafting the original college statutes in 1924. She retired in 1936 to live with her siblings in Southampton, and died in Shedfield Lodge Nursing Home ...

Frances Evelyn Cave-Browne-Cave of Bassett Mount, Beechmount Road, Bassett, Southampton died 30 March 1965 at Shedfield Lodge Nursing Home, Sedfield, Hampshire.