APPENDIX. 
THE following papers were prepared for and submitted to the International Congress 
of Education, at Chicago, July 25-28, 1893, through Hon, William T. Harris, Com- 
missioner of Education of the United States, and General Chairman in charge of the 
Congresses. 
None of these papers were read at sessions of the Congress, but, containing as they do 
much important recent information in relation to the condition of education in foreign 
sountries, they are here appended to the proceedings. 
The series of papers on the Education of Women in Great Britain and her colonies, 
were prepared under the auspices of Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and offered to the 
‘nternational Congress of Education at the request of Dr. Harris. 
List oF THE PAPERS. 
‘« University Education for Women in England,” “A Few Words of Retrospect and 
Forecast,” ** University Association of Women Teachers,” ‘‘ Elementary Education in 
England,” ‘National Education in Scotland,” ** Women Students in the Scottish Uni- 
versities,” ¢ Convent Education in Ireland,” ¢“ Women’s Education in New Zealand,” 
«Educational Work for Women in Australia, chiefly in New South Wales,” ‘“ Recent 
Developments of Education for the Women and Girls of India,” ‘ English Orphanage 
and Training School in Bosnia, 1869-92,” < Elementary and Secondary Education in 
Cape Colony, Africa,” * Public Instruction in Italy,” ¢“ Needlework in the Public Schools 
5f Stockholm. Sweden.” 
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOR WOMEN IN ENGLAND. 
BY MRS. HENRY FAWCEIT [MILLICENT GARREIT FAWCETT]. 
THE story has often been told how the exclusion of the women delegates, chosen by 
swo of the American societies, from the great anti-slavery convention held in London 
in 1840, led to the first formal and organized claim of women to the rights of citizen- 
ship. The sced had lain long in the ground, giving signs of life indeed, but none of 
-apid germination. It will be readily understood that a considerable degree of heat 
was engendered by the controversy whether it was in accordance with social decorum 
and the ordinances of Almighty God that Mrs. Mott and Mrs. Stanton, having been 
chosen as delegates, should sit and speak and vote as delegates, or should be fenced off 
oehind a bar ard curtain as mere spectators. This heat was just what was needed to 
start that process of growth which has never ceased since that day either in England or 
In the United States. The supporters of exclusion carried the day ; the majority of the 
men who had met to take counsel together how they could best oppose negro slavery 
were not prepared to concede the most elementary civil liberty to women. But as Mrs. 
Mott and Mrs. Stanton left the hall, they then and there resolved to call a women’s 
rights convention on their return to their own country. Among the Englishwomen who 
were the spectators and auditors of the discussion which led to the exclusion of the