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

IN THE WOMAN’S BUILDING. 93' acceptance. Miss Cora Clarke of Jamaica Plain has made an exhaustive collection of galls, fungi, and mosses; Mrs. Lemmon, artist of the California Board of Forestry; Miss Marion Talbot of Chicago University, department of domestic science; and a host of others who fill responsible positions in all departments of science might swell the list far beyond the purpose or limits of this paper. The department of biology seems to attract a large proportion of recent students, who meet the demands of laboratory work with great efficiency. The science of ethnology has been ably served by Miss Alice C. Fletcher of Massachusetts. She studied the archaeo- logical remains of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and went in 1881 to live among the Omaha Indians, under the auspices of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, for the further pursuit of archae- ology and ethnology. She lias contributed results of great value, covering Indian tradi- tions, customs, religious cere- monies, and many kindred subjects. She published a book on “ Indian Civilization and Education” in 1886, and was then sent to Alaska to investigate tlie condition of the natives. She is now en- gaged in making allotments of land to the Omaha Indians, for which service she was ap- pointed by the Government. The scientific literature of women is bscoming- very ex- tended. From tlie text-books Horace Mann, of Mrs. Louis Agassiz and Mrs. Richards, of Miss. Crocker and Miss Arms, to the charming sketches of Olive Thorne Miller, we have a constantly increasing series of elementary works in natural science. The books of Miss Jane Newell of Cambridge, on botany; of Miss Julia McNair Wright, on plant and animal life, a series called “ Seaside and Wayside,” with other small but signifi- cant volumes intended to meet the popular interest and compre- hension and arouse a love of scientific study, are pouring daily from the press.* The department of Elementary Science, or " Mrs. Hopkins, the writer of this paper, is the author of “ Educational Psychol- ogy,” “ A Hand-Book of the Earth,” “Observation Lessons,” “ Elementary Science,”' etc.—Ed.