Summer School, 1891, 1892, 1894; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. (investigation), 1895, 1896, 1897, 1900, 1911, 1912; Royal Coll. of Science, London. England, spring term, 1898; Univ. of Bonn, Germany, 1901-02. Demonstrator in botany, McGill Univ. (first woman on staff), 1891-95; lecturer, 1895-1904; assistant prof., 1904-12; acting head, dep't of botany, Dec, 1909-June, 1912; prof, morphological botany since June, 1912, McGill Univ. (first woman in Canada to attain a full professorship). Works and lectures for social reform, coordination of philanthropic and reform workers in municipal elections to secure the women's votes for civic reform. Lecturer upon many occasions on educational, biological and social subjects, especially heredity, eugenics, biology and social reform, and the status of women. Author: Plant Life (illustrated book); also papers: The Development of the Holdfasts of the Florideæ (Botanical Gazette); Nuclear Changes in Germinating Seeds (abstract in Science), 1901; The Teaching of Botany in Public Schools (Educational Record), 1894; Outline of a Course in Botany (ibid.), 1900; Nature Study in Elementary Schools (ibid.), 1901; The German Educational System (ibid.), 1903; Variation and Heredity in Plants (McGill University Magazine), 1903; The Folk-Lore of Plants (Canadian Record of Science), 1893; Canadian Plant-Lore (ibid.), 1896; Canadian Universities in Their Relation to Women (Report of International Congress of Women, London), 1899; Professions Open to Women (in Women of Canada), published by Government of Canada for Paris Exposition, 1900; Modern Educational Experiments, 1904, etc. Chairman Educational Section, Internat. Congress of Women, 1909. Fellow A.A.A.S., Botanical Soc. of America, Am. Soc. of Naturalists; mem. Corporation of Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass.; vice-pres. Montreal Natural History Soc.; former pres. Alumnæ Soc. of McGill Univ. (one of founders of Girls' Club, the beginning of the University Settlement); vice-pres. and life patron Nat. Council of Women of Canada; past pres. and patron Montreal Local Council of Women; pres. Montreal Suffrage Ass'n (including men and women) formed in 1913; mem. Missiquoi Co. Historical Soc, Women's Canadian Club, Montreal Art Ass'n, Royal Edward Inst., etc. Mem. Church of England. Municipal voter—liberal. Favors woman suffrage.
DE RIVERA, Belle (Mrs. John de Rivera), 90 Morningside West, N.Y. City.
Born Philadelphia; dau. Henry S. and Isabel (Patton) Camblos; ed. at the Emma Willard School at Troy, then known (1865) as the Troy Female Seminary; m. John de Rivera; one daughter: Henrietta, m. Henry E. Loney. Interested in the City Fed. Hotel for working girls at 462 W. 22d St., organized 1909, with purpose of providing good comfortable board and lodgings for working women at a moderate charge; organized N.Y. City Fed. of Women's Clubs in 1903, pres. 1905-07, reelected 1909, and at expiration of term of office, 1911, was made its hon. pres, with title of founder, and presented with valuable diamond pin by the Fed. Was for seven years pres. N.Y. Equal Suffrage League, which for some years was the only suffrage ass'n in Manhattan. Mem. W.C.T.U., Anti-Vivisection Ass'n, Daughters of the Union, Colo. Cliff Dwellers Ass'n, Government Club, Current Events Club, N.Y. Theatre Club, Mozart Club, Soc. for Political Study, N.Y. State Women, Post-Parliament, Criterion Club, Eclectic Club, Emma Willard Ass'n, Asso. Club, of Domestic Science, City Fed. of Women's Clubs, William Lloyd Garrison League. Helped organize (1912) and is vice-pres. Nat. Fed. of Theatre Clubs, of which Mr. Sidney Rosenfeld is pres. Its mission is to contrive ways and means to aid in producing plays which appeal to judgment of intelligent people and to give greater opportunities to Am. playwrights by giving trial performances of their works before producing managers who may better judge of the merits of a play than by reading manuscripts.
DERWENT, Emma Wilder (Mrs. Luther Derwent), Rockford, Ill.
Born Evanston, Ill., May 27, 1859; dau. Alden Galusha and Lucy Leavenworth (Sherwood) Wilder; ed. St Mary's Hall, Faribault, Minn.; Rockford (Ill.) Sem.; m. Oct. 3, 1888, Luther Derwent. State Vice Regent, Ill., D.A.R.; chairman Nat. Soc. for Preservation of Historic Spots. Episcopalian. Recreation: Photography. Mem. Rockford Woman's Club.
DESLOGE, Jane Chambers Thatcher (Mrs. Jules Desloge), 3847 W. Pine Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo.
Born Pelham, Westchester Co., N.Y., Nov., 1851; dau. George M. and Anne Blddle (Chambers) Thatcher; ed. Convents of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis, N.Y. City and Kenwood, Albany, N.Y.; m. St. Louis, Sept 25, 1872, Jules Desloge; children: Zoe, Rene, Marion (Mrs. J. Hayes Campbell), George (lawyer), Jane (married Lieut. L. G. Brown, U.S.N.), Louis (electrical engineer). Marcel (architectural engineer). Catholic. Child of Mary; mem. St. Anne's Married Ladies' Catholic Missionary Soc, for city hospitals. Descendant of John Mulanphy, who founded first hospital and orphan asylum in St. Louis.
DESSEZ, Henriette Louise, 1417 Belmont St., Washington, D.C.
Teacher; born Morganton, N.C., Sept 26, 1863; dau. Leon (mining and civil engineer) and Wilhelmina (Gebhardt) Dessez; learned French and German languages at home; ed. in Washington private schools and high school. Appointed teacher by the U.S. Indian Bureau; teacher, later principal, Hoopa Valley Reservation, Northern California, 1895-98; teacher of special branches in Phenix (Ariz.) Reservation, 1899-1903; principal Riverside Reservation School, Southern California, 1903-05. Arranged exhibit for Buffalo Exposition. Sent on a special mission by the U.S. Government to the Hoopas and the Klamaths, Northern California; the trip from Hoopa Valley down the Trinity and Klamath Rivers was made in a primitive dug-out canoe, shooting the rapids through the cañons (Indian guides, Cañon Tom and Shan, well known for their skill in managing a canoe), August, 1900; sent on a mission to the Banning Reservation (Mission Indians), Southern California, August 1904; transferred to Dep't of Commerce and Labor, office of the sec, Washington, D.C. (auditor and translator), 1905. Episcopalian. Active mem. Washington Soc of the Fine Arts. Recreations: Walking, riding, hunting, tennis, golf, china painting and sketching. Made a collection of Indian baskets, illustrating the art of twelve tribes; studied the folk-lore of the Hoopas and Kiamaths of Cal.; the Hopis, Maricopas and Pimas of Arizona. Made a collection of wild flowers of Cal. Favors woman suffrage.
DETCHON, Adelaide, 181 Summer Av., Springfield, Mass.; summer, Mapleview, Huntington, Mass.
Poet, orator; b. Ohio; dau. Rev. Horace and Lorina (Knox) Detchon; ed. In Cleveland, O., and in Europe, specializing in oratory, literature and music; appeared in lyrical recitals in Great Britain, France, Sweden and Australia; gave farewell evening of the Woman's Congress held in connection with World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, 1893. Gave first recital of her poems at the College of Comparative Religions at Greenacre, Me. Author (poems): Liberty Found; The Awakening Word; The Soul's Release; The Invisible Sail; The After Story; Misunderstood; The Seeing Eye, and many other poems. Interested in the cause of national bird protection, which she has been active in presenting to the Governors and other officials and leaders in seventeen States, many of whom have through her efforts become interested in the preservation and restoration of our national birds, both from a humanitarian and an economic standpoint.
DEUEL, Diana Constable (Mrs. Ray E. Deuel), "The Warelands," Norfolk, Mass.
Assistant director; b. Dorchester, Mass., Oct 11, 1888; dau. John Medcalf and Abble L. (Allen) Constable; ed. public schools of Dorchester, Warelands Dairy School (School of Domestic Science), Boston, Mass.; special agricultural and dairy course at Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y.; m.
