orist, the exhibits of New Mexico and Oklahoma
being each in charge of very intelligent women. Some of the
finest fruit farms sending exhibits were owned by women, and
women also made some of the best displays of fruits and,
flowers.
Department N, anthropology, Prof. W J McGee, chief, comprised 4 groups
and 5 classes, the board of lady managers being accorded representation
upon each.
Group 126, Miss Alice C. Fletcher, Washington, D.C., Juror.
Under the group heading "Somatology," the two classes into which
it was divided represented: Physical characteristics of man; the
comparative and special anatomy of races and peoples; specimens,
casts, measurements, charts, and photographs representing
typical and comparative characteristics. Anthropometry;
measurements, charts, diagrams, etc., showing the methods and
results of comparative studies on the physical structure of
living races; instruments and appliances used in anthropometric
investigations.
Miss Fletcher reports:
In the Department of Anthropology there were no distinctive
exhibits by women that I can recall, for the work of women in
that field was represented in the general student body of the
science.
In archaeology, Mrs. Zelia Nuttall's investigations in Mexico
were represented in the publications of the Peabody Museum of
Harvard University and the University of California. Miss Boyd's
remarkable excavations at Gournia, Crete, were in connection
with the Archaeological Institute of America, and the University
of Pennsylvania. The contributions of these two and of Miss
Breton, an English woman, who has made copies in color of the
disappearing mural decorations in Central America, rank among
the recent notable archaeological researches.
In somatology, the exhibit of Bryn Mawr College showed so marked
a comprehension of the value of this line of study and its
observations and the results in this branch of science, were so
clearly and well presented as to receive a special award.
In ethnology, the work of women in this branch was included in
the publications of scientific bodies and universities. In the
collections exhibited the articles obtained by women were
indiscriminately arranged with those gathered by men so as to
make the exhibits of value and of interest.
In reply to the questions as to wheth
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