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of the sterner sex. Not only does society no longer point 

 the finger of scorn at the woman naturalist or the woman 

 explorer, but it showers honors on her while living and 

 erects monuments to her memory when dead. A great 

 change, indeed, and one long and ardently desired. Verily, 

 tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in UUs. 



