the city of New Orleans, and several interesting private
collections.

The highest award was given to Miss Hayward, and bronze medals
were assigned to Miss Dalton and to Miss Valentine Smith, the
secretary of the Chicago Historical Society, who installed its
loan exhibition, and likewise lent some documents belonging to
her private collection.

Two women only figured as exhibitors of single ethnological and
archaeological objects, but merely as their possessors.

The foregoing facts establish that of the three sections under
consideration (ethnology, archaeology, and history) it was in the
section of history that women distinguished themselves most at
the St. Louis exposition. It may perhaps be said that the
activity of women in bringing together and classifying
historical material was a feature of the exposition, and marks
an encouraging stage in the history of women's work in the
United States.

Department O, social economy, Dr. Howard J. Rogers, chief, comprised 13
groups and 58 classes, the board of lady managers receiving
representation in 5 groups.

Group 129, Miss Caroline Griesheimer, Washington, D.C., Juror.

Under the group heading "Study and investigation of social and
economic conditions," the five classes into which it was divided
represented Official bureaus and offices. Private bureaus,
museums, boards of trade, etc. Economic and social reform
associations, congresses. Economic serials, reviews, and other
publications. Scholastic instruction in economics and social
economy.

Miss Greisheimer says:

Studies and investigations of exhibits, Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, social economy group 129. The exhibits, by means of
reports and statistics, of leading States and countries showing
the commercial and industrial conditions of the State or
country, in regard to exports and imports, wages, occupations,
hours of daily labor, health statistics, educational facilities,
means provided for industrial betterment of employees, and
photographs and graphic charts illustrative of the above, no
doubt attracted the attention of thousands of visitors at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and will result in much good.
Important subjects are thus brought to the front and many
employers and capitalists are benefited by the experience of
others, and so go away a