St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-03
Women Scientists.

Women Scientists. SO
One Of the strong arguments used by the
opponents of women's rights is that she is
not mechanical, and that women have done
nothing to contribute to the comfort of the
labor-saving devices that are used even in
their own homes. Whatever truth there may
have been in this objection we cannot see
where it applies against suffrage. It is
evident, however, that women are entering
that field which men have hitherto claimed
as exclusively their own. We see by the
latest English patent reports that even in
Great Britain women are entering the de-
partments of the mechanical arts with sue
cess. Mrs. Maria Goltz, of London, has re-
Gently taken out patent for a very valuable
improvement in cooking stoves. Miss Maria
Kirchner, of the same city, has secured
patent for an improvement in such woven
articles as hats, shoe uppers, gloves and the
like. Mrs. Susie Simmons, of Kent, has
secured patents for an apparatus for prevent
ing accidents due to collisions on railroads,
or of ordinary vehicles.
In America, women have entered the field
of science as we'll equipped, and with as
strong and correct spirit of investigation,
as the men. Already they occupy a nigh
position in the medical profession, and old
practitioners are no longer afraid of losing
caste by meeting women doctors in eonsulta-
ton. Many American women graduates are
taking postgraduate course in biology and
the study of lower organic life. Higher
special work is largely confined at present to
women of scholarly leisure and liberal in
come. The best facilities for pursuing these
specialized studies are to be had at Cam
bridge, Cornell Bryn MaMr and Johns Hop
kins University. 81: 8; l...se
In the department of =. zoology, Miss
Florence Mayo, Miss Annie Parker Hench-
man and Miss Julia B. Platt have had papers
published in the bulletin of the Museum of
Comparative Zoology of Harvard College. An
important monograph relating to American
history was recently prepared by Mrs, H. C.
McDougal. It. treats of Fugitive Slaves,
from 1919 to 1861" The author gives an ac-
count of the legislation respecting slaves
fleeing from service or labor and report of
the principal fugitive slave cases from early
colonial times to the abolition of slavery.
The work is based upon the literature of
slavery contained in the collection of Har-
and upon an examination Of the Colonial,
State and National legislation on this sub,
ject r. - .si4:.e..-
Other historical monographs are by Miss
Toilet on ''The it; Heqse;' and
by Lucy Maynard Salmon, Professor OF His
tory in Vassar College, on the 'Veto Power of
the President ....- -. r.,...-
The publication fund of Harvard Annex
preserved the prize essay of Lucy Annie
Clayton on the Personal Character of Dante
as Revealed in his Writings. In scientific
research two Vassar graduates, Mrs. Eliza
beth Peckham and Anna Isabel Milford, have
won distinction. jeaa
Results of considerable value to biology
have been reached in the laboratory. of Bryn
Mawr by the Investigations of Harriet Ran
dolph, fellow biologist of that college. They
are republished in Zoologisher 3-A7azige' of
Leipsic. Equally interesting is the "Paraly-
sisms of the Anglo-Saxon Genesis by
Catherin Merrill, A. D.. fellow in English at
Glenn Mawr. .s.sr!-- IL:
The highest honor in the gift of Johns
Hopkins University, the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy, has recently been awarded to
Miss Florence Bascom. Petrology, COM
pdfdtlN6ly u6W UTduCu. VI SeOlOSlcdl SCIENCE,
is her speciality. She; has accepted the chair
of petrology in the geological department of
the Ohio State University under the direction
of Prof. Edwin Ortin.
All women's colleges in the country are in
close communication with the bureaus of
meteorology and astronomy in Washington
and throughout the whole United States It
is fattering to the sex and to the men who
admire them, to know that coliege-bred
women are employed as computors in the OBJ
servatories of Harvard and Yale, and in the
Naval Observatory at Washington. The facts
that led to Professor Pickoring's late theory
as to double stars were the discovery of Miss
Murray, of Harvard. The sociological prob
lens of the day are evoking specialized
search in domestic science and sanitation,
the demonstration of which were to be seen
at the Worlds Fair in the New York Model
Workingmen's Home. It should be said IN
this connection that the advances made by
women have not been accomplished, as some
might believe, through the assistance given
by men, but rather in the face of the most
violent opposition. And so we say all hail to
the advancement of intellectual women.
Mrs. Anne Besant.
We may not agree with Mrs. Besant, in
deed she does not agree with herself for
very long at time, yet we must confess she
has a most charming and interesting person
atty. She reminds us of a beautiful ship,