The Evening Tribune

FIRST WOMAN ELECTED.

Mrs. Elizabeth M. Reed Honored by the Royal Asiatic Society.

Mrs. Elizabeth M. Reed, formerly of Boston, but now a resident of Chicago, has the honor of being the first and only woman elected to membership in the Royal Asiatic society of London.

A paper by Mrs. Reed was read at a recent meeting of the Victoria institute and was declared to be the feature of that meeting of English savants. Its title was "The Ethics of Buddhism—Were They Derived From Semitic Sources?" The author presented many historic facts, showing it was possible that some of the sentiments of Buddhism had been derived from the earlier writings of the Hebrews, or from some people who were familiar with those writings. In the absence of the author the paper was read by Dr. Theo. G. Pinches of the British museum.

It was the first time in the history of this august body that the work of a woman had been thus honored. Mrs. Reed only gained entrance to it after passing a long and trying gauntlet.

The University of Illinois and the Northwestern university have conferred upon her the degree of master of arts, while Bethany college gave her that of L. H. D.—Chicago Times-Herald.