Abolition of sox distinction in the Hall of Fame, announced by Robert Underwood Johnson, direc-for, cames just on the eve of the unveiling of the first bust in} honour of a woman. This is thas of Maria Mitchell, astronomer. The Hall of Fame contains at! present, in addition to the names! of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary! Lyon, Emma Willard, Alice Froe-} man Palmer, Frances Elizabeth Willard and Charlotte Saunders; Cushman, the names of 56 men. Tablets to all these mon and: women have been sot in the wali! of the colonnade, but at present the' only busts are those of General Grant (unveiled in April by Marshal Joffre), Robert Fulton and.
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