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Kansas University Weckly.
Science Notes.
Mr. Warren Knaus of McPherson, Kansas, visited the Department of Entomology Wednesday.
Mr. Arthur B. Jones, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Columbian Field Museum accompanied by his wife visited the Department of Entomology Tuesday.
Mr. C. E. McClung departed for Columbia College of New York last Sunday. He will remain there until the second term and will study histology, zoology, and physiology.
The Department of Paleontology has recently received a large number of pamphlets on vertebrate paleontology. These pamphlets are theses of students of European universities.
Mr. E. S. Tucker will probably send to the factories for a new camera,-since he has photographed the young ladies class in physical culture. The full extent of the damage done to his camera has not been ascertained.
Prof. Haworth has taken his class in general geology into the mineralogical laboratory for a few days' work on minerals and rocks. This is the first time he has done so with his geology class simply because he has never before had room enough in the laboratory to do so. His moving the library and the drafting department into the new quarters in the main building this year has made it possible for him to fit up the mineralogical laboratory so that it is much more serviceable than it has been before.
A finger nine feet long! The statement is a bit startling on first consideration, but is less so when the animal that possessed the finger is examined. A Pterodactyl secured for the paleontological department has, as do all Pterodactyl's the digit homelogous with the fifth of the typical series enormously developed. The digit serves as a support for the membraneous wing peculiar to this class of reptiles, and varies greatly in size. In the museum specimen spoken of, the digit is nine feet long; and the total expanse of the wings must have been at least twenty-feet.
Mr. Benj. L. Miller who is doing special work in geology is helping Prof. Haworth in the geological laboratory at odd hours. Just now he is looking up the literature on the Tertiary preparatory to the production of a report on the Tertiary of Kansas by the Department of Geology.
The Department of Entomology has recently received considerable new apparatus, including a fine Premo Sr. Camera, several microscopes, three aquaria, and numerous other laboratory accessories. These additions place the department in a position to offer much better advantages to the students of entomology than in previous years. The aquaria will be used for studying life histories of water insects from both sound and brook life.
The Lecture Bureau.
The University Lecture Bureau is now fully organized and ready for business. The delay in getting to work has been occasioned by the slowness of some of the classes in electing their representatives. The Faculty members of the Bureau are Profs. Canfield, Sterling, and Templin; the student members are Felgar, Rose, Rench, Price, Miller, and Swayze. The officers of the Bureau are: President, Richard R. Price; Secretary, C. E. Rose; Treasurer, Prof. Sterling. The Lecture Bureau has already contracted for four out of its six numbers and is now negotiating for the other two. The course this year will be first-class in every respect and considerably superior to that of last year. Course tickets will again this year be sold to students at one dollar, to others at a dollar and a quarter, except in blocks of ten or more. Season tickets are now being prepared and will be placed on sale in a week. The rules and conditions of last year's tickets will govern those of this year. The attractions already secured by the Bureau are: The Salisbury Orchestra, the Mozart Symphony Club, The Swedish Quartet, and Hamilton W. Mabie. The first number will be the Salisbury Orchestra, Nov. 18. The Chicago Festival Orchestra which was to have appeared in the University chapel had no connection whatever with the Lecture Bureau.