WOMEN IN EXPLORATION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2016, 25 March 1914, Page 2

WOMEN IN EXPLORATION.

INTERESTING VISITOR. One of the sinking things in coimec* tron with the activities or women today )& the way in which they have become enthusiastic-travellers. Distance mlducss, hardship, and danger fail to daiifit them, a/id they h.nve added materially to the «wlu's steo of wographicai, ecientifie, and anthropological knowledge. Apparently the oinly places which tJiey have so far left severely itton© are the North ond . South ■ Tqles, and doubtlc'ss. tJioir iimo for invasioii will «HB(i sooner or later. ■

■r<Wf?- * M6n -te>mV F.R.A.S., I'.H.b.fci,, who at present is visitinw H'eJuflgtou, has trarelled in nuiny countrres, and has' written a ltiiwber of books, same of wliich (teal with airthropolsgical pr-obleius and research, wliilo others are of.geographical interest. She has also read .papers terqre tile British Association for. tkc Advajiecaiient of Science It .Might safely ho said that •;it was through hev hhmm that tfonwn wore admitted as .Fellows to the fioyal Geographioal Society about, a year a"j>, ■a pathetie clip in of eircunirtaiiees leading up to tins . The Lyceum Club, of wMich Miss Pullen-Uttrfy is a member, included in its raewbership ninny noted' travellers, and among them was the kte Agnes Deans Cameron, :who was the first wiijtp woman to gtizo upim th-o Arctic Circle f:fp.m tlie mouth of the Stofcensie Rjrey: Miss Pullen-lJnrry relates that when last talking with her, Miss Camwin reg'retted tfiefe was .no society ill EngiaßU to welcome her &n$ other" women back from their tmels and e.iFloitatiQns, and the fermition of a eircie within, the. ehrfi was suggested , . Tliej parted, Cameron gains to Vanoeuvw island, where she 4iedV jifes PaHe.ii-Bti.rry i-oturnod to Enffknd, to 1-oHbw out the suggestion, with tire r-e----salt that the Geoßrflphicai'Society was formed under the aegis of the liyceijm Club. The inaugural di.iin.qr was held at the J/yceum Clulj ft little mwo than a yeai'' ago;' Two months after its. inception the Koyal Geographical Sooiotj epOHed its doors to wwiicn.

Women's Geographical Soclfity, m Mias I'uHen-Burry is tho president of tilts Women's Geographical Society, and .two of its vreopresktenls aro" Lady Bruea and Jliss .15. G.'.SeWple, M,A" Lady B.HUO is ».soiefttist, and ■actively associated with her irasbandt Sir David Bitted, in.Bast Africa, studymg the. dreaded seoui-gB of sfeepiiig sickness. Miss Seaipfe tof Chicago) hat, <;fo;tie brilliaftt work; and her "Geography of the Waited States" is the teit book of the United. States Jfavy. ..She gave her first lecture at tho iwauiiUrai dinner lynicli celebrated tlie fo-rmatioii of- tho Women's Geographical Society. Aftieiip its list of raenibws are included many MOtnble women tevcilors and scieiitiets tit whose coiiragi?, .ctedlivawsc, and brilliaut gifts of uiilid any eoiuitry might tfell 'be liroud, g»d who are the' noiiinii eutemoof a raet! that.lias jirQtlacetJ famQHs espforers, travellers, and scie»' tists th-rwigh m&fiy centuries.

Noted Woitieri Travoliors. Ail outstiuiding figure ajiionfr wonicn' who lii}yo- dfivated/'.tfiiyr .iives. to- reemith TOrk' was Saj-.y "Kihgsley]" tvlioso .bi-illi.a.ut career was cut short jircHiiitnro-ly-Try^■a[&Ktkfi'>lifi£ iiafino octvipies a ibresnass pkco in West African rcEeareh at tho presflitt dt»:... ller life-bug ftifiiwl, Mrs.'Soy ■•BAity>-'o yKc-pi-csitlw't of this society, tells that she was the first traveller to ascend the peak of. tho. Ca«cropns. Mary Giwnrt, whose books ai«l' artielos on the liiii,. Littio explored regions of West Africa arc so ireif ktnwvii, is a meiiibcr of tho WiJwen's Odograplii-cjtl-Society, and according to fairly re* cent,nows she lm Tjjcon "trawltinß.- in Cliiii'a. Then tliero arc Agues Herbert, the crrick eports wtfrnaH, , ivlrq fes written "IVo Biauaa in Somali'laijei," "T*e Dianas in Alaska," and "Casuals hi the Cttiieasiis," btiolss that arc full af hiterost; MSSB Gosling, who-lias syritten about Frwico for 1 M\\h autl Boon's Travel Series; Bliss Hwrgi'orc, whoso.: books arc. tlfiSEript-iVft. of life in Donntark, Sweden, ..;iHid Norivay.. .It is antitipated that Mrs, Panny BulteeMVorkaau, who has pud* liishfid , Hinwlayaii travels, will shortly je-iiv the sdeiety. Yet aswtlier -membe; , \\%a Mis.' Bulstrodc, who for tweniv- ' three' I 'month? • had bswi travelling • in Mongolia, and dotvlitfes her pfhlication deal-ing with that country will threw light ujion tho troubled state <if its reiatfoiis with China. Those aro only seme of the mehibeJ-s of the Wobtch's Geo-gra-piiieal .Sflei.etyy -aud froin their achievements may .b(; gathered sotiiothtttg of the adventurous spirit that is Jsuidiiig tlleni iw their sanech for knowledge. . .

Negroes-anti thd . Presidential O-amjiatgni ! iSItSS Piilleit-liiirry was ftirtaiiato in visiting the United States- iHic-n it. was in the tiH"(Jss of a i*residentinl eaitil>aiga, Mr. 'Ueascvelt making a bid for i:is s«csed terav as President.' In tlio course of her investigations she happefteci,' to'be visiting jioolior 'Wasliingiou's settteiviesst afc Tustsiigee (Akliamaj, and was invited to i'ntci- t-lie B% prtlus liail,:.in whidi th-a results of the iskction were Jrostpd up as they earoe in.' Here' 'tee gathered over thrca theiisandliegroosj all in the wiklest state of cxdteinei.it and ardently l'rojwii-g tlvut Sly. lioosevelt, wliam they regartled as-their friend,- flreuld friu. Behind Miss PtilleiiBurr.y --on ths platforni were ranged Mt cnormeus number of teachers, and in tweiift tlio ditferent bulletins the. negroes, ivhtf ranged in. colour from tlio blackest eboay to" ahiiQSt ivory white, would give vent* to their excitement by singing hymns and old plantation gougs. Never in 3ißi- life liad she seen stwli ; escitemeat, but the change) -wltm! they catnc to Idave tho hall, Mas marvellous, fhey AVerc told that unless they, wished to rouse- tho active'-enmity ef tlie , white lieoplo they must leave that place witfi not- tho slightest trace of ■ excitement. Wlvs mice they-left. Booker Washington wS.s asked hoff • such a the ono which Miss Pitilen-Burry is inBurry was told that it : was' tl-ia oft'ect of t-lK hatred with 'Which tfao white . }jeoplo' regarded thenu ' . .- ■ At tlie Bookw Wa-s-hiugto-n edueotioii settlement tJie negroos are taught all liiiids pf Jiidvj-s-tria-1 werk, fanning; eai , - .pdiitevi.ng, dressmaking, housework, etc. Opposed to it is the Ptiocis [m-eiitj whielt pirns at giving tho negroes r atiadejnie training," turning . t-lieiii into I clerks, ihinisters, lawyers, etc; Tho ! Booker Washington plan of education is the one which .Jltss JPullt'U Buri'y is-in-clined ta think tlw best suited, to tho.ii ? iKffids and tc-jnpi'ramont, Miss Pttllen livir-fy wan cofnniissioned t<9 svritc.a book on Cttlliutn, svliioli slio ])M but roccuily completed, j'ivfti-j-vviiwo in- America [slio was struck by the- man'elloiisly-dcveldjj-eil oiiilis of ihi , ' ttßiiten. They wi'ra to lo foumi in practically ev»ry part ofthe ro-nnti-y, an<J they fulfilled sa many reqliirrtmmts, -aus\ypi'e<] to so . mAiry skies of vf-OHioii's iivf>R. .NatnraUj , . Jfiss. fullen-Biirry Is 'keenly"-'iiitorretcil fiiwortien's suffrajfo, hut tor.. Work" has left Iwr. >Vtth pi'iictiwilly no time' to. pi veto activ'owoflc'on its iwli-aUV-save what Sim lias done for gcogi-apTiical women: