WOMEN IN ARCHAEOLOGY 



sylvania has conferred upon her the honorary degree of 

 Doctor of Science. 



That American women have not been behind their sisters 

 in Europe in their enthusiasm for archaeological investiga- 

 tion is evinced by the researches and writings of Miss 

 Alice C. Fletcher and Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, both of whom 

 enjoy an international reputation in the learned world. 



Miss Fletcher's chosen field of labor has been in ethnol- 

 ogy and anthropology. Her studies of the folk lore and 

 the manners and customs of various tribes of North Ameri- 

 can Indians have a distinct and permanent value, while 

 those of her contributions which have been published by 

 the Smithsonian Institution and the Bureau of Ethnology 

 contributions based on personal knowledge of a long 

 residence among the tribes she writes about show that she 

 has exceptional talent for the branches of archaeology to 

 which she has devoted many years of earnest and successful 

 study. 



Mrs. Nuttall is the daughter of an American mother 

 and an English father. Thanks to the care that was 

 bestowed on her education by her parents and to her long 

 residence in the different countries of Europe, she is profi- 

 cient in seven languages. This knowledge of tongues has 

 been of inestimable advantage to her in her researches in 

 European libraries and in those historical and archaeologi- 

 cal investigations which have rendered her famous. She 

 has devoted special attention to the early history, lan- 

 guages, religions and calendar systems of the primitive 

 inhabitants of Mexico and Central America, in all of which 

 she is a recognized authority. 



When, some years ago, the mysterious ruins of Mexico 

 began to attract the special attention of archaeologists, Mrs. 

 Nuttall was selected by the University of California as the 

 field director of the commission which it sent to pursue 

 archaeological researches in this Egypt of the New World. 

 A more competent or a more enthusiastic director could 



