New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-30
WOMEN IN SCIENCE.
MRS. NUTTALL BELIEVES THAT A PROM
IsNG FIELD IN Archaeology
is OPEN TO THEM

The convention Just ended OF the American As
ISOLATION for the Advancement Of Science held az
Columbia College has given unexpected
prominence. some OF the strongest papers in the
meetings having been read by them In the de-
partIaent OF physics Mrs E. NJ Souvtelle contrib
uued a paper The Nature Of Sound In chem
istry Harriet Winfield Gibson collaborated IN
investigation 70 the nature Of corn oils In
zoology Marguerite Eeuastead discussed the devel-
opneut Of the lungs IN frogs In botany Mrs. E @.
B-itton read q paper the structure OF the stern
Of Poytrtchadelphus dendroides. and Miss N. c.
Ferguson on the pollen tube and division Of thu
generative cell II pines.
n the important section, anthropology, two wom-
en appeared, Miss Alice c Fletcher, whose paper
on Giving Thanks: A Pswnee Ceremony was
quoted considerable length IN The Tribune and
Mrs. zeEa Nurtau. who discussed ''KoIlman's
Reconstruction Of CraniaI Type Of Swiss Lake
Dvellers'' and read paper the meaning OF the
ancient Mexican calendar stone. Before the
ciaI and economic science section Miss Cora Agnes
Bennison read a paper The Powers of Our
Courts Interpret Constitutions"
Mrs Euttau the archGeologist, has attained de-
gree OF distinction in that science equal TO that OF
Amelia Edwards the Psychologist She was born
n San Francisco Of Anglo-Anerican descent on
the pate-naI side and Of spanish-American on tho
other. Her travels have covered Europe, Mexico.
The West Indies. Canada and the United States,
and her extensive linguistic attatnrnents include
NahUatl, the olden language OF Mexico.
At the Columbian Exposition n Chicago Miss
EuuJaL was appointed judge OF awards Of Mexi-
can and Central American archaeology in the de-
partuent OF enhropology and IL 1886 was intrusted
with z scientific mission 10 Russia by the Univer-
sry OF Pennsylvania and formed large archeeolog-
zeal and chronological collection for its museum
The list q MIS- NuttaPs scientific affiliations is
interesting. showing that IN science at least
men are glad to recognize valuable work whether
mans OF wo-an's She Is fellow OF the American
Association for the Advancement Of Science, mem
Der OF the American Philosophical Society. honor
airy member Of the Archaeological Association OF
Of
member OF the Antiquarian and Numismadc So
ciety OF Philadelphia Of the Soceta Itallana DAN
rropoIogfa Of the Socfete Geographic de Geneva
OF the SOciedad ScienIiAco Antonio AlZate, Mexico
and Of the SocieUe des Americanistes de Paris In
addition. she Is honorary special assistant 10 the
Peabody Museum OF American Archaeology and
Ethnol0gy. Cambridge. Mass, under whose au-
spices many OF her works have been published in
the Peabody Museum Papers"
Mrs NutJau believes that promising field Is
open 70 women IN archaeology, and cites few
whose success Il unQuesCionable proofs Of her
assertion Miss Alice c. Fletcher she regards as
one Of the most important archaoIogsts living and
the value Of her researches as immense. To Mrs.
Cornelius Stevenson, the Psychologist, en-
trusted the arran cement Of the Psychological col
lection az the Free Museum OF arts and Sciences.
president CT the Imperial Archaeological Society Of
MOSCOW, anc az q convention OF arcnseoIogists a
year or Two ago presided over the meetings with
Mrs. Alice lie Plongeon, 100. has done some good
work IN the study OF Mexican antiquities, Mrs.
Mrs. Mary Heminway. OF Boston, although not
herself archEOogtsr. was deeply interested in
the science, and paid the expenses Of a number
o. expeditions
IN her paper read yesterday, Mrs Nuttau pre-
scented some OF the results obtained IN her recent
Investigations. : detailed account OF which will
soon appear in the Peabody Museum publications,
Harvard University 4 comparative study OF the
cosmical scheme an6 the social organization Of
existing American tribes set forth by Frank
Gushing. Alice Fletcher and other authorities and
that OF ancient Mexico, YUcaJan, Central Amer "a
and Peru having been made by Mrs NuttaI, she
found that the cosmical scheme employed
Identical n all cases. and based division
OF The tribe into four or into parts, with
minor Subdivisions. She traced the same system
throughout China India. Assy ria, Persia BabyloIa
ard Egypt, and arrived a. the novel conclusion
that The said scheme may he considered universal
and 70 have formed the basis OF all Of the ancient
c1vfliza tons
trattEg the different modes used IN different lands
20 figure the coEmcal scheme. and compared the
Assyr.au and Egyptian archaic modes with the
Mexican calendar stone which reveals the same
features with the addition OF elaborate details The
interesting problem now before the archRologisr is
70 determine when and how the system became