WOMAN IN SCIENCE 



Valuable, however, as was Amalie Dietrich 's work in the 

 Austrian Alps, it was but a preparation for that which 

 some years later she was to enter upon in far-off Australia. 

 Here she devoted twelve of the best years of her life to the 

 cultivation of botany in the virgin soil of Queensland. 

 Here, too, she surprised everyone by her venturesome spirit 

 no less than by her irrepressible zeal in making collections. 

 Heedless of danger, she plunged quite alone into the wil- 

 derness and spent days and weeks at a time with the wild 

 aborigines. 



But she secured what she went in quest of, a large and 

 valuable collection of plants, containing many new and 

 interesting species. Besides these, she was able to bring 

 back with her to Europe a large mass of zoological speci- 

 mens as well as countless domestic utensils and implements 

 of warfare and husbandry employed by the savages among 

 whom she so frequently journeyed and with whose man- 

 ners and customs she eventually became so familiar. 



Modest and trustworthy, Frau Dietrich had a host of 

 friends in the scientific world, and the number of plants 

 which bear her name are not only a tribute to her worth, 

 but a striking evidence of the extent of her activity in the 

 pursuit of the science which became the absorbing passion 

 of her life. 1 



Of Russian women who have become specially noted for 

 their contributions to natural science, a very prominent 

 place must be assigned to Sophia Pereyaslawzewa. After 

 receiving the doctorate of science in the University of 

 Zurich, she became director of the biological station at Se- 

 bastopol, a position she held with great eclat during twelve 

 years. Here she made numerous important researches on 

 manifold forms of marine life and prepared many works 

 for the press in German and French, as well as in her na- 



Leistungen der deutschen Frau in den letzen vierhundert 

 Jdhren auf wissenschaftlichem Gebiebte, p. 85, von Elise Oelsner, 

 Gulirau, 1894. 



