WOMAN IN SCIENCE 



not have been chosen. Her finds in the Pyramids of the 

 Sun and Moon at Teotihuacan and elsewhere in our sister 

 republic were especially important. In recognition of her 

 achievements President Porfirio Diaz nominated Mrs. Nut- 

 tall honorary professor in the Mexican National Museum. 

 She was also offered the position of curator of the archae- 

 ological Museum of Mexico; but this office she declined. 

 She holds membership in a large number of learned socie- 

 ties in America and Europe and is a frequent contributor 

 to numerous magazines on historical and archaeological sub- 

 jects. She has had the good fortune to discover a number 

 of important manuscripts illustrating the early history of 

 Mexico. Chief among these are a Hispano- American manu- 

 script which she dug out of one of the libraries of Madrid 

 and another which was found in a private collection in 

 England and reproduced in facsimile in this country. In 

 honor of its fair discoverer it is now known as the Codex 

 Nuttall, and is regarded by experts as one of the most 

 precious records of ancient Mexico. 



What is probably Mrs. Nuttall's most valuable contribu- 

 tion to archaeological science is her erudite work entitled 

 The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civili- 

 zations. It is a comparative research based on a study of 

 the ancient Mexican, religious, sociological and calendar 

 systems, and represents thirteen years of assiduous labor. 

 It is a worthy monument to the scientific ability of this 

 gifted Americanist, and one which brilliantly illumines 

 some of the most controverted points of comparative archae- 

 ology. 



The Nestor of women archaeologists is Donna Ersilia 

 Caetani-Bovatelli the daughter of the famous Dante 

 scholar, the late Duke Don Michel Angelo Caetani-Sermon- 

 etta. Since the days of Boniface VIII, whom Dante scorn- 

 fully denounced as lo principe de' Pharisei, the family of 

 the Caetani has been one of the most illustrious of the 





