ned in
Glasgow.... Scholarship for women established in Bristol
University College.... British Women's Temperance Association
commenced.... Passing of the act, known as Russell-Gurney's act,
enabling universities to admit women to degrees, August....
Resolutions of King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland
to confer medical degrees on women; five ladies passed their
examinations and received degrees in the following spring.... A
memorial, signed by 45,000 women, presented to the queen on
behalf of the Bulgarians.

1877. Teachers, Training and Registration Society inaugurated,
February 2.... Trinity College, London, decided to throw open its
musical examinations to women.... St. Andrew's University offered
"Literate in Arts" degrees to women.... A bill to amend the
Married Women's Property Law (Scotland) passed; came into force
January 1, 1878.... International Congress on Public Morality met
at Geneva, September.... Admission of women medical students to
the Royal Free Hospital, October 1.... Manchester and Salford
College for women (now affiliated to the Victoria University)
opened, October.

1878. Society to extend the knowledge of law among women
started.... Matrimonial Causes Amendment act passed; a clause
being inserted by Lord Penzance enabling magistrates to grant a
judicial separation to women if brutally treated by their
husbands, a maintenance to be given them, and the children to
remain under their mother's care.... Admission of women to London
University degrees and examinations, July 1.... Intermediate
Education act, Ireland; participation of girls in its benefits.

1879. Victoria University charter grants degrees to women....
Oxford, Somerville and Lady Margaret Halls opened, October....
Nine ladies elected on London school-board, November....
Pharmaceutical Society admits women as members, October.... Order
of St. Katherine for nurses established.... School for
wood-engraving and one for wood-carving established.

1880. Charter of Irish University gives degrees to women....
Demonstration of women in Manchester in favor of the suffrage,
February 3; followed by London, Bristol and Nottingham in the
same year.... Bill to give further protection to little girls
under 13 passed.... Mason College in Birmingham f