WOMEN AND THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 208, 27 May 1908, Page 5

WOMEN AND THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

For ..many years women have been admitted to all the rights of members of the . British Geologists ': Association.; 1 They' have . done' excellent work asH secretaries, for- the excursion arrangements, and at the ■ time two : are serving on the Council. . It is . not . too. much to; say that the papers published : by : them' stand on the same level as that reached by the men. The Geological Society, while admitting women to its. meetings ""on the'introduction.'of a. Follow, has declined, to grant them the privileges of the: Fellowship. l - On April. 1 a motion was brought forward: at the ordinary meeting that women should' be admitted on the samo terms as men. This was hotly debated, and eventually dofeated. An amendment to refer the question to a ballot of the wholej society was carried by a majority of fifty-' four votes toHwenty. ..As many of the Fellows reside abroad, not a few in the Farther East and Australia,some'; months' 1 .-mustelapse before 1 ! the ' result'- can 'be known. There is, however,''; a', feeling .of-confidence- ' on .the part of tho , promoters of . the move-; ment that it iwill'be -favourable, to ! the •a'd-' mission of women,'who; of course, will havo to be proposed and .seconded in the usual way, and undergo : the ordeal of the ballot. Mrs. Roosevelt is said ■to be opposed to f a third termv for • the President, ' having grown very tired of .the formal'official social round in which: she has lived -during - the past:.seven.years. She is orie'of-.tho busiest women in official circles in ' Washington, says a correspondent. "The .burden of a great deal; of entertaining at : 'the White Houso falls'upon Mrs/-Roosevelt; she doe's her own shopping, supervises the' School work of her younger children, , takes .'a long walk almost every- morning,, and often; goes horseback riding in the: afternoon with-, her husband. Mrs. Roosevelt-.is greatly'interested 111 music, ■ and is an pianist. : She is a connoisseur in pictures/, arid is : familiar with the. '-Her skill with the needle is remarkable.: : Miss Ethel Roosevelt shares h^r,-mother's', fondness for music and \art, 'anß'V,'Miifi.-v f '36osovplt and. her. • daughter its /the+best ''of: comrades."