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announced to the founders of the college that the task which they had 
assigned her was too great for any one individual to undertake. There 
must be several professorships rather than one. Of those named she 
was given first choice, and when in 1876 she opened her laboratories and 
actually began her teaching in Wellesley College, she did so as Professor 
of Botany, although her title was not formally changed until 1878. ~ 
As soon as the newly founded department could be spared her 
immediate guidance, she went to Europe for further study. Here again 
she found the universities closed to women students. In that quiet but 
persuasive manner so characteristic of her, she applied for admission to 
the University of Berlin, and was the first woman to be admitted to the 
botanical lectures and laboratories of that university. At the age of 
67, Miss HALLOWELL retired from active service in the college and was 
made Emeritus Professor of Botany, in February 1902. 
Professor HALLOWELL was a pioneer in the higher education of 
women, the first and only woman to have organized and maintained at 
a high degree of efficiency, for more than twenty-five years, a department 
of botany. The foundations which she laid were so broad and sure, the 
several courses which she organized were so carefully outlined, that, 
except where necessitated by more recent developments in the science, 
only very slight changes in the arrangement and distribution of the work 
in her department have since been necessary. In addition to the pro- 
viding of general equipment of the laboratories, much time was devoted 
to the development of the herbaria and to the securing of other illustra- 
tive material. She organized and built up a botanical library which 
from the very first was second to that of no other college in the country, 
and is today only surpassed by the botanical libraries of a few of our 
greatest universities. With an enthusiasm that never failed, and a per- 
sistence that knew no defeat, she gave herself to the working out of her 
ideals in scholarship and in life. 
Gentle and dignified in manner, Sonvathetc and generous of heart, 
rich in her knowledge of nature, with a rare felicity of expression, and 
with that humility and reverence which characterize the true lover of 
nature, she inspired and enriched the lives of her pupils and associates. 
Professor HALLOWELL was not a productive scholar, as that term is 
how used, and hence her gifts and her achievements are but little known 
to the botanists of today. She was pre-eminently a teacher and an 
organizer. Only those who knew her in this double capacity can fully 
realize the richness of her nature and the power of her personality. Her 
work will not be immortalized in cold bibliographies, neither will it be 
