WOMEN IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES 255 



The names of the women in the United States who have 

 become prominent by their researches and writings in the 

 various branches of the natural sciences would make a long 

 list. And when one recalls the fact that it was only in the 

 latter part of the nineteenth century that American women 

 were afforded an opportunity to study science, it is a matter 

 of surprise that the list is so extended. For practically no 

 provision was made for the serious pursuit by them of the 

 natural sciences until the opening of Yassar College in 

 1865, and it was not until the closing years of the century 

 that the portals of many men 's colleges were unlocked and 

 thrown open to the hitherto proscribed sex. Considering 

 all the obstacles they had to overcome, the ignorance, the 

 prejudice, the opposition of all kinds they had to combat 

 in the United States, women have already accomplished 

 wonders and bid fair to achieve much more in the near 

 future. 



Now almost every educational institution in the land, 

 private or state, has one or more women professors or asso- 

 ciate professors. They teach all the branches of the natural 

 sciences that are taught by their male colleagues, botany, 

 geology, mineralogy, zoology, anatomy, bacteriology and 



the latter half of the nineteenth century and did more than any one 

 else in the British Isles to further the interests of farmers, fruit- 

 growers and gardeners by making known to them methods for con- 

 trolling and subduing their multiform insect pests. Her labors were 

 unwearied and unselfish; she received no remuneration for her services, 

 but cheerfully expended her private means in carrying out her in- 

 vestigations and publishing their results. We know not now by 

 whom in England this work can be continued; it is not likely that 

 anyone can follow in the unique path laid out by Miss Ormerod; we 

 may, therefore, cherish the hope that the Government of the day will 

 hold out a helping hand and establish an entomological bureau for 

 the lasting benefit of the great agricultural interests of the coun- 

 try. " Professor J. Eitzema Bos, the distinguished entomologist of 

 Holland, had no hesitation in proclaiming Miss Ormerod the first 

 economic entomologist in England and one of the most famous eco- 

 nomic entomologists in the world. 



