Prime Minister signed by 110 independent
Liberal members, asking that women's suffrage shall be included
in the coming Reform bill.... Mr. Mason's resolution for women's
suffrage thrown out by a majority of only 16.... Great conference
of Liberal associations at Leeds on parliamentary reform votes
for woman suffrage, October 17, followed by similar votes at
Edinburgh, November 16; Manchester, November 21; Bristol,
November 26, and in many smaller places.... Guarantee-fund raised
in Bombay for lady physicians and hospitals for women commenced;
Calcutta University opened to women.

1884. Second reading of the bill for the Custody and Guardianship
of children carried, March 26, by a majority of 134.... First
lady, Mrs. Bryant, obtained degree of Doctor of Science in London
University.... Nine ladies obtain B. A. degree in Royal Irish
University.

1885. College of Surgeons, Ireland, opens its degrees to
women.... Criminal-law Amendment Bill passed in August, raising
the age of protection for girls, and giving increased facilities
for rescuing them from ruin.... Municipal suffrage granted to
women in Madras.... Miss Mason appointed inspector of workhouses
by local government board, November.

FOOTNOTES:

[586] Signed by Superintendents Public Schools, A. C. Shortridge,
Indianapolis, Alexander M. Gow, Evansville, Wm. H. Wiley, Terre
Haute, Jas. McNeil, Richmond, J. H. Smart, Fort Wayne, Wm. Phelan,
Laporte, Barnabas C. Hobbs, Bloomingdale; Thomas Holmes, president
Union Christian College, Mrs. Thos. Holmes, Merom; Geo. P. Brown,
principal high-school, Mrs. Geo. P. Brown, Jessie H. Brown,
assistant-superintendent public schools, Prof. W. A. Bell, Prof. T.
Charles, Hon. Byron K. Elliott, Geo. Merritt, Mrs. George Merritt,
Wm. Coughlen, Jno. S. Newman, president Merchants National Bank,
Col. James B. Black, Jos. E. Perry, Dr. E. S. Newcomer, Mrs. S. E.
Newcomer, Col. Samuel Merrill, Franklin Taylor, Phebe M. Taylor, H.
H. Lee, Mrs. Elizabeth Lee, Dr. O. S. Runnels, Mrs. Dora C.
Runnels, Horace McKay, Thomas E. Chandler, David Gibson, Miss Mary
Bradshaw, Dr. J. C. Walker, Indianapolis; Elias Hicks Swayne,
Mahala M. Swayne, Richmond; Dr. Geo. M. Dakin, Mrs. Geo. M. Dakin,
Laporte.

[587] Mrs. Hill was President of the San Francisco Woman Suffrage
Society for three years prior to her death in 1884.

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