WOMEN AND SCIENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20866, 7 May 1931, Page 3

WOMEN AND SCIENCE.

VALUABLE DISCOVERIES.' \\ omen scientists are taking a constantly increasing part in important research work and they have made valuable discoveries. Sir W T alter Fletcher, secretary of the General Aledical Council, has recalled the remarkable discoveries made by Dr. Harriette Chick during the war, which cured thousands of soldiers of scurvy, states a London writer. An official of a London science laboratory said that the value of preventive medicine has been greatly increased by Dr. Chick's work, and she is still studying various aspects of (his problem at the Lister Institute. He added: * ■> " Airs. Alav Alellanby, the wife of Professor Edward Alellanby, of Sheffield University, has just published the results of her work on the cause of dental caries. She sheds a little more light on a problem which has baffled experts for years. " The germ of creeping paralysis has now been isolated by Aliss Kathleen Chcvassut, and her researches are considered of such importance that tho Halley Stewart Trust has made a large grant to equip a laboratory in Hampstead for her, eo that further work can be done with the most modern apparatus. "Professor Olive Wheeler is an acknowledged authority on psychology, while Professor Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan is a botanist of international repute. At West field College Dr. Alarian Delf. has recently completed valuable investigations on how plants are affected by various rays of light. " Women are equally active in practically every other branch of science. The late Aliss Gertrude 8011, daughter of Sir Hugh Bell, travelled in Syria and Arabia, where a white woman had never been before. Her archaeological work was extremely successful and of such value that it earned tho praise of experts all over the world. " Aliss Violet White, of Clapham, is an astronomer who is hoping one day to become an observer at Greenwich."