 Bascom even took a leave from her teachings in 1907 due to her interest to study petrography and mineralogy.She spent a year learning and researching advanced crystallography in the laboratory of Victor Goldschmidt and Heidelberg before going back to teaching as she did not want to spend time doing “overspecialistic research,” that she would not be able to teach to her students in the courses offered.At Bryn Mawr College, geology was considered adjunct in comparison to other natural sciences.