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

90 ART AND HANDICRAFT 28, 1889, illustrious through her contributions to science, and hon- ored in the hearts of all her countrywomen. The name of Miss Eliza A. Youmans is conspicuous as a pioneer in the field of botany. She wrote a treatise upon plant-life which marked an era in methods of study and teaching. Hers was one of the first books which pursued object-teaching as the true method, and made original observation the basis of investigation. She was- the sister of Professor Youmans of New York, and was associated with her father in his intercourse with the scientists of Europe. In many high-schools for girls, private seminaries for women, normal schools, or advanced private academies, the natural sciences of geography, geology, astronomy, botany, and zoology have been long taught by women with distinguished abili- ty. Now the colleges for women maintain profes- sorships in every branch of science filled honora- bly and successfully by women. Consult the catalogues of these in- stitutions for their names, flanked by de- grees and titles witness- ing their learning and their achievements. Even in the universi- ties themselves young women wrest honors in the scientific field from POTTERY—Cincinnati Collection. United States. the most ardent champions of the other sex; the increasing fellow- ships for young women are leading forward the most gifted and the most ambitious of our girl graduates to higher attainments, year by year, and there are wider opportunities of competition, not only in the physical and natural sciences, but in ethnology, archae- ology, philology, psychology, and even distinctive branches and special lines of applied science. There is, moreover, a vast amount of work of a high order and great value done by women as assistants in the scientific depart- ments of our universities. The Harvard observatory and Harvard botanical and zoological museums testify to the thoroughness and comprehensiveness of such assistance in observing, recording,