“The combined 23d and 24th annual reports of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology at Cambridge have no more striking passages than those which show the interest of women in this branch of science, already testified by the Hemenway expedition and in other ways. Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw endows with $80,000 a fellowship fund, primarily for the benefit of the present incumbent, Miss Alice C. Fletcher; Mrs. Susan C. Warren gives $5,000 for cases and (1,000 for explorations, and Mrs. Elizabeth C. Ware gives $1,000 for explorations. All other pecuniary gifts for the year 1890 were Insignificant. Facts like these—and they are by no means isolated in our institutions of learning—ought to tell powerfully in favor of the higher education of women.”

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The Nation, Vol. 53, July 9, 1891, page 29