Note 79 — II. Medical Education of Women, THE SUBSTANCE OF A LECTURE DELIVERED ON APRIL 26TH, 1872, IN ST GEORGE’S HALL, LONDON, THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY IN THE CHAIR.

I fully agree in the following remarks made by a local paper when the results of the next summer term were declared:—“The whole number of gentlemen who appear in the prize-lists (in Botany) are 32, out of 140 competitors,—i.e., about 23 per cent.; of the ladies, all. We believe that these results prove, not that women’s capacities are better than those of men—a thing that few people would assert—but that these women who are devoting themselves to obtain, in spite of all difficulties, a thorough knowledge of their profession, are far more thoroughly in earnest than most of the men are, and that their ultimate success is certain in proportion. Nor would we omit the inference that, this being so, those who wantonly throw obstacles in the way of this gallant little band incur a proportionately heavy responsibility, as wanting not only in the spirit of chivalry, but even in the love of fair play, which we should be sorry to think wanting in any Briton.”—Daily Review, August 5, 1870.