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Kansas University Weekly.
Snow Hall.
Dr. S. W. Williston will spend the summer examining the chief museums of the East. He will visit the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, D.C., the American museum of New York, and those of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and others. The Doctor expects to leave Lawrence about the 21st. of June, and will attend at Yale commencement.
Prof. L. L. Dyche started for Alaska Tuesday. He will remain there during the summer collecting zoological specimens. His collecting field will be limited to the coast and immediate vicinity inland. Prof. Dyche will also ascend Mt. St. Elias. The department of zoology has been closed for the summer and the assistants in the taxidermic work have been dismissed until the reopening of the University in September.
Prof. E. Haworth will remain in Kansas throughout the vacation, continuing his work for the University Geological Survey. Some of the subjects to be investigated are coal, lead, zinc, salt, gypsum,, and oil and gas, also the general stratigraphy of the western part of the state, and the irrigation problem of the same region. Prof. Haworth will be assisted by Mr. W. N. Logan, W. R. Crane, A. Stewart, B. L. Miller, J. N. Macomb Jr., Dr. Geo. I. Adams, Dr. G. B. Grimsely and Mr. J.W. Beede of Washburn, and Mr. C. N. Gould of Winfield, Kans.
A representative of Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, visited the University last Wednesday. The University ordered twelve microscopes of the company. Heretofore the University has secured its microscopes from abroad, but of recent years the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company has so perfected its instruments that they are equal to those of foreign manufacture.
The University Science Club was in session Thursday afternoon. A number of interesting talks were given by professors and students. After the discussions officers were elected for following year and committees appointed. Mr. R. C. Gowell was elected president; Mr. P. S. Burkholder, vice president; Mr. H. W. Menke, secretary; Mr. C. A. Rohrer, treasurer.
The department of Histology received last week a request from the Kansas City Medical College to recommend a candidate for a position in the college. The position is that of instructor of Histology and the candidate receiving it will have exemption from all fees while pursuing medical studies in that college.
A fine skull of a Titanotherium has been mounted in the paleontological laboratory and is now placed in the museum. This specimen was secured in the Bad Lands of Dakota by the Kansas Geological Expedition of '94. Titanotherium lived in North America and Europe during the early Miocene, and is more nearly related to the rhinoceros than to other modern animals, yet the relations are somewhat remote. It was a herbivorous animal about the size of a small elephant, heavy limbed thick set and had a thick skin destitute of hair. The eyes were very small comparatively and the brain remarkably so,-as indicated by the brain cavity in the fossil specimen. The head had two horn like projections on the nose. These were not true horns, but mere knobbed portions of the skull covered with skin. The animals frequented wet, swampy localities, and were otherwise similar to the rhinoceros in habits.
Mr. C. E. McClung has begun microscopical study of the Foraminifera. He will continue that this summer, and attend the Columbia College of New York during the first school term next fall.
School of Fine Arts.
Miss Orton gave a concert at the Hall last Tuesday assisted by Mr. Henri Appy of Kansas City violinist. It was a fine concert making a fitting close to the graduating recitals of '96,
Prof. and Mrs. Preyer entertained the students at their residence last Tuesday evening each guest was supplied with a card inscribed with some familiar melody and had a merry time hunting up some one singing the same tune. Partners being found, refreshments were served. A certain mysterious looking drum slung aloft with numerous strings attached furnished wonder to the curious. Each who was able found a string, at a given signal all pulled and found themselves in possesion of wood whistles with which they made right vocal. The party broke up feeling that a vote of thanks should be offered their host and hostess for the ingenious mode of entertainment.
Most of the students left the city for home this week, full of plans for the vacation and with sincere hopes for a reunion in the fall.
The Junior class held a meeting last Tuesday. The unexpected invitation to the Senior play was gladly accepted.R.R.Price was chosen as the Junior representative on the Lecture Bureau.