In reply to your questions in regard to the work of the women jurors at the St. Louis Exposition, will say that I arrived very late at the exposition, after the jury had about finished their duties in the Department of Horticulture, in which I was to serve.  For this reason my duties were limited, and I had little opportunity to examine and give an intelligent estimate of the part taken by women in this department.

Department K, Forestry, Mr. Tarleton H. Bean, Chief; Mrs. J.M.  Glenn, Baltimore, Md., Department Juror.

This department comprised 3 groups and 14 classes, under the group headings:  Appliances and processes used in forestry; Products of the cultivation of forests and of forest industries; Appliances for gathering wild crops and products obtained.

No report.

Department L, Mines and Metallurgy, Mr. J.A.  Homes, Chief; Mrs. M.G. 
Scrutchin, Atlanta, Ga., Department Juror.

This department comprised 5 groups and 43 classes, under the group headings:  Working of mines, ore beds, and stone quarries; Minerals and stones, and their utilization; Mine models, maps, photographs; Metallurgy; Literature of mining, metallurgy, etc.

Mrs. Scrutchin reports as follows: 

In all our fairy stories, dwarfs and elves live below the earth and deal with mines and their dark belongings; the fairies live above.  So none of us are surprised to find few women in this line of exhibitors.  My work as a member of the department jury confined me to one room, and to an inspection of lists submitted by the group jurors.  So I really had no opportunity for specific examination of the various groups and classes, except where some doubt was expressed as to the validity of an award, when I made it a point to examine that subject with more or less care.  Many women placed specimens of clay and ore in their State collections.  Several Georgia women, I know, did this—­some, though owning and operating mines, and active in submitting specimens, took shelter under the husband’s name.  This fact also came under my own observation.

Nearly all these exhibits were in group 116, class 682.  One collection of clays and pottery produced in the interest of artistic handicraft came from the Sophie Newcombe Memorial College for the higher education of girls, of New Orleans, La., and was in the same group, but class 690.  Many like collections were seen in the Educational Building, but this is the only one given space in the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy.

The Woman’s Club of Pipestone, Minn., showed specimens of pipestone and jasper belonging to group 116, class 682.  In the whole list I find only two foreigners—­one from Toronto, Canada, and the other from Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico, both such near neighbors to our own country as hardly to seem foreign.  The one making exhibition from Mexico, Esther Lopez, is associated