In Miss Frances Mary Buss, who died on Christmas Eve
at the age of sixty-seven, the country has lost not only one of the ablest of the teachers of women, but, fortunately for us, one who had the power of transmitting to many of her pupils the faculty for teaching and organising the work of teachers, which she possessed herself in so remarkable a degree. In the North London Collegiate School for Women, of which she was the head, she not only succeeded in giving the love of learning to a very large number of her pupils, but in training not a few to be almost as efficient teachers as she was herself. She has therefore increased our obligations to her by providing for us not a few who are almost competent to supply her place. That is just the sort of completely disinterested service of which Miss Buss herself would have been thoroughly proud, for she was so possessed by the desire to make women's education what it ought to Le, that she would have rejoiced, and rejoiced heartily, in knowing that, owing greatly to her own efficiency, she would not, for very long, be missed from among the ranks of which she was one of the first and most successful organisers. Her pupils not only gave to Girton and Newnhara Colleges some of their ablest students, but to the schools formed on the model of her own, some of the most successful and brilliant mistresses.
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