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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 142, 16 June 1923, Page 8

To a woman architect, who owns and manages her own business, has been given the task of reconstructing the Roosevelt Memorial House in New York. It is a great step forward for a woman to secure such a commission in open competition with architects of the opposite sex. In things scientific, too, American women are becoming well established. The assistant-curator of Marine Invertebrates in the National Museum, at Washington, is a woman, and another is doing valuable work as an investigate in fish culture, and in the prevention of stream pollution. The New York Zoological Society employs women on research work in connection with tropical fauna, and yet another museum in South Carolina has a woman director. In Colorado there is a woman director of the State Board of Agriculture, and a wojnan organises collections in the National History Museum in Chicago. New York employs two women at th e Botanical Gardens, one as a research assistant and the other as a technical assistant, while many women work us technical advisers to scientific journals a