 Several years later Prof. and Mrs. Scharlieb returned to India, her children being left in London in safe-keeping, Mary Scharlieb returned to India with her husband, Prof. Scharlieb.She was anxious “to find out how far my efforts and sacrifices were likely to be of use to the women in India, both European and native”.In 1883 she returned to India, and became lecturer in midwifery and gynæcology at the Madras Medical College and examiner in the same subjects to the university of Madras.