Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-05 | Page 5 | Women Scientists

WOMEN SCIENTISTS A Kansas City Girl Gives Instructions i on Fruit Raising Detroit Wandering through the huge white marble buildings of the depart department department ment of or agriculture at Washington one sees many women In neat white aprons some of them mere girls bending over and test tubes Their activities activities activities seem very mysterious but when one Inquires one learns that they are arc engaged In original research work relating In one way or another to farming or gardening The case ot of Miss Alice Allee Henkel a botan botanist botanist let In the plant bureau is noteworthy if It only for the reason that she entered that establishment originally In an au ordinary clerical capacity as a stenographer and typewriter That was only a few years ears o when a mere girl she came to Washington from Cincinnati But she was the tho Inheritor of scientific from a family In which there had been many searchers after exact truth In bo botanical and other lines and she quickly took up plant study as a professional pur pursuit pursuit pursuit suit Miss Henkel though still a young woman Is the author ot of a number of scientific bulletins already issued by the plant bureau One ot of these is on oh the th subject of Weeds Another Is on Drug Plants this latter subject being one to which she hits has h s devoted special attention Vp Up to the present time more matter of hers has been published by b the government govern government ment than from front the pen of any other woman Miss Margaret Huddleson Is la another young woman scientist In the department depart department ment of agriculture She halls hails from Kan Kansas Kansas Kansas sas City Mo Not long ago she took a high degree at a college of medicine and andla andis la is now nOV a doctor This she shedid shedid shedid did In the Intervals of her work as a I that being her particular ape specialty Her lIeI most important business in the division of Is to give In Instruction Instruction Instruction by letter to people all over the country who want to know about how to grow fruits