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were used in it could have been used in the road which has been made 

 past the house, or, besides, it is possible that the front wall of the house 

 has been a wooden one, and, although this is very rare in outhouses cer- 

 tainly, yet it must be taken into consideration that here it is much 

 easier to procure wood than in Iceland. The whole form, the method, 

 and the condition of the house itself seemed like nothing else than that 

 it was built by Icelandic hands, although some of the stones seem to be 

 rather small, but, as pieces of pottery and bricks have been found beneath 

 the stones which had fallen down from the walls and on the floor itself, 

 it seems to prove sufficiently that the house can not belong to the old 

 Icelandic period; but as nobody has expected such a house here, the dis- 

 covery is very remarkable. 



This path is so like paths in Iceland, for which there have been gath- 

 ered stones and which later on have been trodden down by the feet of 

 horses and men, that I would not have hesitated to declare that it might 

 be Scandinavian if in it there had not been found bricks beside the other 

 stones, which seems to indicate that the path must belong to the same 

 period as the house which was dug into the hill. This discovery must 

 therefore, too, be regarded as very remarkable. . . . 



Respectfully, 



Thorsteinn Erlingsson. 



Cambridge, Mass., July 12, 1896. 



THE EDUCATION OF THE FEMINIST. 



By DAVID STAKK JORDAN, 



PRESIDENT OF LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY. 



THE meeting of the Astral Club of Alcalde, on September 10, 

 1899, was rendered memorable by the return, from a month's 

 absence in the East, of the secretary of the club, Miss Corintha 

 Jones, D. jST. N. N. Her presence had been sorely missed at the 

 August meeting (though I say it who should not), for it is not 

 often that one of our devoted band is absent from his post. 



Miss Jones had left Alcalde to conij)lete a course of study in 

 medicine in one of the most famous colleges of the East. At the 

 suggestion of the president of the club, Mr. Asa Marvin, F. T. S., 

 the usual programme was suspended on her return, and Miss Doc- 

 tress Jones, D. N. N. N. (for such indeed is the title she has now 

 earned), told us of her studies at the Massachusetts University of 

 Mentiphysics, in Boston, a noble institution, up to date in all re- 

 spects, for it received its charter from the General Assembly of 

 Massachusetts in the year 1881. 



Miss Doctress Jones left her home in Alcalde on the 20th of 

 July, designing to visit certain relatives residing at Homer and 

 Virgil, Cortland County, JST. Y., on the way. She reached Boston 

 on the 5th day of August, and at once proceeded to the university. 



