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from New Zealand. In the absence of any reliable manual 

 which embraced the countries represented by these plants, 

 they were classified as far as orders and genera with 

 Lindley's "Vegetable Kingdom" as a guide. The mass 

 was carefully opened, the plants identified, arranged in 

 labelled sheets of uniform size, and the whole placed 

 in a convenient herbarium case in complete readiness 

 for reference and study. During three years she labored 

 patiently and faithfully upon it during her leisure hours, 

 and it was only in her fourth summer vacation that she 

 finished the forty-eight page catalogue of plants, which made 

 ^ valuable contribution to local botanical knowledge. It 

 must have been a valuable part of the laboratory practice 

 on which she labored with such earnestness, and the practical 

 results were shown in the delightful and able lectures 

 which she delivered on cryptogamous plants of land and 

 sea during the spring of 1867 and 1868. 



In 1865 she was elected to the chair of chemistry and 

 toxicology in the Woman's Medical College. In 1874 she 

 was made the Dean of the Faculty, which position she held 

 until the time of her death. In 1873 Professor Bodley was 

 elected corresponding member of the Cincinnati Society of 

 Natural History ; in 1876 she was elected to the New York 

 Academy of Sciences, and the same year to the American 

 Chemical Society of New York City. 



In 1879 the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine 

 was conferred upon her by the Woman's Medical College. 

 She was elected a member of the Franklin Institute in 

 1880. Professor Bodley was deeply interested in education, 

 as is shown by her election in February, 1882, to be a 

 School Director of the Twenty-ninth Section in Philadelphia. 



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