Art and Handcraft in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbian Exposition

WOMAN IN SCIENCE. THE mind of woman has always shown itself in sympathy with the harmony and beauty of the physical universe. In the pursuit of knowledge she often elects as her favorite paths those which bring her into close relations with nature. Her proverbial propensity to investigate, her acknowledged patience, her delicacy of manipulation, her exactness of detail, all find legiti- mate scope in the nice observation and conscientious work of the laboratory. With advancing education, better equipped than ever before, she responds to the appeal of natural forms and CARVED WOOD PANEL FROM RECORD ROOM. K. E. P. Mosher. United States. processes. Her eye, and ear, and touch become sensitive, her mental perception keen to note variations of type and modifica- tions of structure. It is pleasing to record that American women of this genera- tion are entering the various departments of scientific research with enthusiastic devotion. While college doors were yet closed to the sex, the modern, move- ment for freeing woman, from the traditional limitations not having been, inaugurated, individual women were often led to study in a more or less isolated way for their own satisfaction. How many herbariums, portfolios of drawings of plant or animal forms, collec-