was also
referred to. The Convention was a highly interesting one in many
particulars, and the pioneers of the cause who engaged in active
service twenty years ago proved themselves as ardent as in the
early days.

The following letters were read:

26 HEREFORD SQUARE, LONDON.

DEAR MADAM:--I received your kind letter some weeks ago, and
beg to apologize for the delay of this reply. Pray accept my
thanks for your kind expressions regarding my small efforts
to keep alive the great cause we have all so near at heart.
I regret to hear that one who, like yourself, has been a
pioneer on the way when the path was the ruggedest, should
for many years have been incapacitated from aiding its
progress. May you now be restored fully to activity. We
certainly want all true workers, albeit the progress of the
cause surpasses our most sanguine expectations, on that as
well as on this side of the Atlantic.

Pray accept my thanks for your kind invitation to your
Convention. It will not, I think, ever be likely that I
shall visit America, but I shall always read with deep
interest of all that goes forward there. Accept, dear madam,
my thanks for your kindness and sincere regard.

Mrs. P. W. DAVIS. FRANCES POWER COBBE.

MORNINGSIDE, EDINBURGH, Sept. 24, 1870.

MADAM:--I regret that I am unable to accept the invitation
with which you have honored me, for I have been an invalid
for some months, and am not sufficiently well to undertake
any journey. I can assure you that the cause of woman is
gradually but firmly gaining ground in Scotland, and that
each month we are gaining in the right direction. At present
there are six female medical students studying in our
university. The College of Surgeons has thrown its doors
open, without any restriction, to the female student.

The Merchants' Maiden Company has, within the last few
months, opened large schools in connection with its
hospitals, offering as its prizes Bursaries in the
university to girls as well as boys, which I think is one of
the strongest moves w