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Mrs. Sophia Bryant, D. Sc.

THE London University can now boast of a lady Doctor of Science, Mrs. Sophia Bryant, Mathematical Mistress in the North London Collegiate School for Ladies, Camden Road, a school which has been so long conducted under the superintendence of Miss Buss. Mrs. Bryant matriculated in the University in 1879, gaining the second place in the Honours division. She passed the Intermediate Examination in Science in 1880, obtaining a place in first division at the Pass Examination and the second place in the second class in Mathematical honours. At the Bachelor of Science Examination in 1881 she was again placed in the first division at the Pass Examination, and passed with double honours, being placed alone in the second class in Mathematics, and gaining the first place in the first class in Mental and Moral Science. At the Examination for the degree of Doctor of Science she stands alone in the sixteenth branch of examination, the requirements of which are a “thorough practical knowledge” of psychology, logic, and ethics, and a “general acquaintance" with the physiology of the nervous system and organs of sense in man and other animals; with the history of philosophy, political philosophy, and political economy.

The only other candidate who has obtained the D.Sc. degree in the same branch is Mr. Prasanna Kumar Ray, now Professor in the University of Calcutta. There were in all twelve candidates for the D.Sc. degree at the recent examination, of whom six only have passed.

Mrs. Bryant, who is a daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Willoch, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, has been recently appointed one of the Lecturers for the London Society for the Extension of University Teaching, and is the only lady holding that post.—Our portrait is from a photograph by Robinson, 65, Grafton Street, Dublin. [102]

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