Scandinavia : Baltic diatoms, snow-line plants, insects of the oatfields -- Ireland : mosses, mollusks, and migrating boulders -- France : of physics, farms, and physicians -- Belgium and the Netherlands : from Ardennes mosses to East Indies algae -- Germany : Bavarian lakes, Brazilian forests, a kitchen in Braunschweig -- Austria-Hungary : mainly medicine -- Switzerland : physicians, botanists, and a chemist -- Italy : shells of Calabria, mosses of the hills of Rome, fishes of the alpine lakes -- International comparisons and conclusions -- Appendix. American women ; British women -- Bibliography of papers by West European women (excluding the British) in scientific periodicals, 1800-1900.