WOMAN IN SCIENCE 



vancement of knowledge, until they shall participate in the 

 advantages and prestige accruing from connection with 

 these organizations, they will have reason to feel that they 

 are not yet in the full possession of the intellectual advan- 

 tages for which they have so long yearned that they have 

 been but partially liberated from that educational disquali- 

 fication in which they have been held during so many long 

 centuries of deferred hopes and fruitless struggles. 



death of Kenan, regarding whose candidature the Academy curtly 

 declared, ' ' Considering that its traditions do not permit it to examine 

 this question, the Academy passes to the order of the day." Thus, 

 it will be seen that, in spite of the long-continued opposition to 

 women members, the French Academy is more than likely to offer 

 its next vacant chair to the pride and glory of Poland, the im- 

 mortal discoverer of radium and polonium. 



