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received the smallest compensation for their time, and the exceptions 

 were made because it was absolutely indispensable to have the services 

 of experts. At the close of the exposition the entire literary exhibit 

 was removed to the Capitol at Albany, and placed in the State 

 Library. The Governor of the State and the Director of the State 

 Library have most kindly promised their aid in securing appropriations 

 in the future, in order that this collection may every year receive the 

 additions made to it by women throughout the State, in the belief that 

 it is destined to become a collection of genuine historic value. 



Committee on Education. 



In making Mrs. Andrew D. White chairman of the committee on 

 education at the first board meeting it was believed that the work, as 

 directed by her, would have exceptional value. Unfortunately, owing 

 to the appointment of Mr. White as Minister to Eussia, and Mrs. 

 White's subsequent departure, she was unable to take up her duties, and 

 resigned from the chairmanship. Mrs. Bellamy, the first member of 

 Mrs. White's committee, was at once urged to fill the vacant place, and 

 only reluctantly acceded to the request that her name should stand as 

 chairman, if an expert might be appointed to do the work, as her plans 

 in connection with the literary committee demanded all her time. 



Prof. Lucy M. Salmon, of Vassar College, was considered to be the 

 woman most highly fitted for the position, and she was invited to rep- 

 resent the women's board. In accepting the position Prof. Salmon 

 refused any salary or remuneration other than her expenses. Before 

 Prof. Salmon began her work Mrs. Bellamy paid a visit to Mrs. Alice 

 Freeman Palmer, in Boston, for consultation, and there learned that 

 Massachusetts had already been at work over a year, and Mrs. Palmer 

 was paying three experts to make the researches required for a cred- 

 itable exhibit. This information was somewhat appalling, but only 

 made the duties more exacting for ISTew York. 



The educational work for the State having been given into the hands 

 of the secretary of the Board, of Regents, Mr. Melvil Dewey, the 

 women's educational committee and Prof. Salmon considered that the 

 best way to bring out women's interests was to work in connection with 

 the men's department, Mr. Dewey being entirely favorable to the plan. 

 The work proceeded on these lines, aided to some extent by the mem- 

 bers of the educational committee of the Board of Women Managers, 

 and the sub-committees. Prof. Salmon gave her attention principally to 

 private schools and women's colleges in this State, urging them to 

 exhibit, but lent her valuable aid in a general way to the work of Mr. 

 Dewey's bureau, which was comprised under three heads : First, that of 

 public schools; second, that of private schools, including academies ; 

 third, of colleges and universities. The plan was to have a complete 

 exhibit of certain great systems of education, rather than to have a lit- 

 tle exhibition of smaller schools. The magnificent showing made by 

 New York in all educational lines, in spite of limited time, is a fact to 

 be pointed to with pride by both men and women. 



