ABSTRACT
THE President of Smith College, Northampton, Maesachusetts, U.S.A., has just forwarded to Miss Amelia B. Edwards the gratifying intelligence that his college has conferred on her the honorary degree of LL.D., adding that this is the firf!t occasion on which an. American college has conferred that degree on a woman. We may add that it is the first time that any woman .in· Her Majesty's dominions has received the distinction.
