613th ordinary GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, ON MONDAY, JANUARY 19th, 1920, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



The Chair was taken by Miss C. L. Maynard. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read, confirmed, and signed. 



The Secretary announced the Election of Mr. H. Maurice Smith as a 

 Member, and the Rev. J. M. Turner, Miss E. Nowell Salmon, Dr. J. P. 

 Brooks, Miss H. Matthews, Dr. Charles Fox and Mr. Basil Atkinson as 

 Associates. 



The Chairman then called upon Dr. Schofield to read his paper. 



THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE FEMALE MIND. 

 By Alfred T. Schofield, Esq., M.D. 



THIS subject presents at the moment a dissolving view of 

 great promise. Some present may remember the 

 old dissolving views shown by the magic-lantern that 

 charmed us so much as children, and will recall the fascinating 

 way in which the old picture melted into the new. It is so to-day. 

 The woman of Early Victorian days has nearly disappeared 

 from our view, though she may still be found in remote country 

 places : the gentle, quaint, prim yet graceful lady, with her 

 tippet and poke-bonnets, her samplers and her still-room, all 

 nearly as rare and precious now as flies in amber. But the new 

 is better, and the wonder is it has been so long in developing. 

 The coming picture is on nobler, grander lines ; the gentle sub- 

 mission and downcast eye may not be easy to find nowadays, 

 but they are replaced by the candid and clear look of complete 

 emancipation, and the upright figure of the freeborn. The 

 marvel is that with such a rapid advance there have not been 

 more extravagances. Setting aside exceptions, nothmg to me 

 is more marvellous and delightful than the quiet, decent, self- 

 respecting dignity of the modern latch-key young lady, living 

 in her own rooms in London. I am quite aware that very severe 



