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brothers and husbands which is no doubt due to the training in 

 our higher universities which young women now receive almost, or 

 quite as fully as young men. The school for the collegiate instruc- 

 tion of women at Cambridge, generally known as the Harvard 

 Annex, gives to women as full advantages in scientific study and 

 research as to men, except in the department of crj^ptogamic 

 botany. Three or four of these Harvard women, if I may so term 

 them, are now prejiaring papers embod3'ing the original research of 

 several years — Miss Henchman and Miss Piatt in the department of 

 animal morphology, and Miss Reul in botan3'. 



Although women, as a usual thing, have not pursued long con- 

 tinued researches in science, they are furthering the progress of 

 science verv largely by bequests and special funds. Indeed, I do not 

 know but thej' are doing more in this way than men. Professor 

 Goodale, of Howard, condvicts a large botany class of Boston 

 women. Some of them in their zeal contributed so largely to that 

 department of Howard College that it was possible to push to 

 completion the museums and laboratories of botany as otherwise 

 woidd have been out of the question. 



In 1881 a marine biological laboratory was estalilished at 

 Anisquam, Mass. This was the work of women of Boston. After- 

 ward it was thought best to establish another at Woods' HoU, 

 but during the winter of 1887-8 these women were instrumental in 

 organizing a lecture course in science in aid of the laboratory. They 

 were eminenth' successftil, and in June, 1888, the Marine Biological 

 Association opened the doors of the new lalioratory to students. I 

 have already given some account of the women who have studied 

 here during the past three summers, which, like the earlier Penikese 

 school, is open to both sexes. However, as might be expected, a 

 larger number of men avail themselves of the unequalled advan- 

 tages of the place. There have been attracted to it the most promi- 

 nent biologists of America, professors and teachers of science whose 

 reputations are already established, finding here not only unexcelled 

 facilities for prosecuting their investigations during the summer 

 vacation, but also the opportunity to confer with their colleagues. 

 Thus has this work of women — the Woods Holl Biological Labora- 

 tory' — been of paramount importance to science. 



Mrs. Thompson, of Stamford, Conn., has created the Elizabeth 

 Thompson Science Fund 'for the advancement and prosecution of 

 science in its broadest sense.' The fund now amounts to $26,000. 

 The income from this amount is annuallj' distributed by the trus- 

 tees of the fund to applicants who are making scientific investiga- 

 tions irrespective of the country wherein they are carried on, the 



