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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 36 (search)
XXXVI.
the new theory of language.
In a late number of Science
August 27, 1886. a new theory of the utmost interest is brought forward by one of the most eminent of American philologists, Horatio Hale.
It forms the substance of an address given at Buffalo, New York, in his capacity as vice-president of the anthropological section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He thinks that it solves one of the scientific questions that seemed most hopeless; and the solution has peculiar interest as showing how the most important results may follow from things usually held trifling — in this case, from the most unintelligible chatter of children.
For many readers his conclusions will have especial interest through this fact, that the earliest clew to this remarkable discovery — if such it be — was given by the observations of a mother in her nursery.
No puzzle outstanding in science has been greater than how to account for the variety of languages among me<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 56 (search)
LVI.
more thorough work visible.
It is beginning to be plain that with the Treat advance in the education of women, during the last thirty years, there is already a marked advance in the grade of their intellectual work.
At a late meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Buffalo, New York, nearly every section offered among its scientific papers some contribution from a woman.
In the section of Anthropology, the paper that excited most interest was that of Mrs. Nuttall Pinart on Mexican inscriptions, which is described as completely revolutionizing the method by which these important historical memorials have hitherto been interpreted.
Dr. Brinton, who is on the whole the highest authority on this class of subjects, said that this paper was of epoch-making importance, and that its conclusions would probably be sustained.
In the section of Chemistry, a paper was read by Miss Helen C. De S. Abbott on the composition of a bark from Honduras that pr