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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 2. 1956
1,500,000 Insects! Snow Museum Has Them
Bugs will be bugs, but what would you do with 1500,000 of them? That is the number of specimens stored in the Snow Entomological Museum. It is the largest university collection of insects in North America.
About 5,000 insects were contributed to the collections by Francis Huntington Snow, the first biologist on the campus and later president of the University.
Dr. Snow was particularly interested in collecting insects in the Southwest, and he made many trips to that part of the country around 1900. These trips proved exciting at times and even led to evacuating camp due to Apache Indians on the war path.
The largest contributor to the museum since Prof. Snow has been Dr. R. H. Beamer, professor emeritus in entomology. For thirty years he took regular summer survey trips collecting insects.
Collections From Many The museum is made up of collections from many sources, including private individuals and former students. The insects are identified by professors, students, or sent to other entomologists. Among some of the most unusual insects, are a case of five walking sticks bought about three years ago from a collector in New Guinea, and five Cicadidae from Burma obtained about eight years ago.
The walking sticks were given by former students and the cicadidae were bought for the purpose of display.
Cicadidae, or locusts, have clear wings in this area, but in the tropics the wings are colored.
Capt. Louis C. Kuitier, who received his Ph. D. in 1947, sent in three of the cicadas which were part of thousands of specimens he collected in Southeast Asia.
The walking sticks as seen in the United States are small and wingless, while those in the tropics grow quite large and have wings. Both of these types of insects are plant feeders. The walking sticks
Oread Named By Settlers
Bv TAL STREETER
Many of you have asked The Daily Kansan to explain when, where, and how the hill we plod up every day got its name. So here's the story.
It goes way back to 1849 when a branch of the California and Oregon trail crossed this old promontory.
Immigrants from the East were heading for California. At the top of this hill, looking out over the fertile valleys, many were pretty darned tired and wished they could make their homestead here.
Unfortunately for all the sore feet in the crowd, politicians back in Washington had reserved these lands for the Indians "as long as the grass should grow and the water should run."
Evidently there was a drought in 1854 for it was in this year that the land was taken away from the Indians and given to the white man. The first people who stopped on behalf of the Indians kept permanently were a group of New Englanders. The date was August 1, 1854.
These easterners had a favorite school back in Massachusetts called Oread Institute. It just so happened that OI was located on a similar ridge overlooking a town; Thus Lawrence was born,
And if you haven't guessed already, those easterners called this hill Mt. Oread.
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chew food while the cicadas suck plant juices.
diseent Insects Displayed
Iridescent Insects Displayed Another display case shows species of beetles, flies, and bugs that have iridescent colors. These bugs are one of the hardest plant sucking insects to which bedbugs belong, Wallace LaBerge, assistant professor of entomology, said.
The iridescent colors in these insects are permanent because they are not pigment but structural colors. The colors range from blue and green to metallic sheens.
These insects were partly collected by staff and students. The countries represented in this case include Panama Canal, Guadalcanal, Burma, French Congo, Java, Madagascar, East Africa, Belgian Congo, Virgin Islands and some of the southwestern states in the United States.
One of the big problems of the museum is keeping beetles out of the dead insects. The same type of beetle that gets in wool and furs also likes to eat dead insects.
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Official Bulletin
Poetry Hour, 4 p.m. Student, Union Music room. Edgar Lee Mastrer. Reader:
Today
- Pre-Nursing Club, 7:15 p.m. 101 Fraser
- pre-nursing students urged to attend
German sound film 7:30 p.m. 426
Morgan's English Triumph of a Genius' English subtitles
Morning prayer, 6:45 a.m. Danforth
Chael, Holy Communion, 7 a.m.
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German sound film, 4 p.m., 15 Fraser,
Friedrich Schiller," Triumph of a Genius." English subtitles. Public invited.
No admission charge.
Saturday
Liahona Fellowship, 5:30 p.m. Meet at church for trip to Independence, Mo.
Sunday
Lutheran Student Association, 9 a.m.-
5 p.m. Trinity Lutheran Church. To plan
spring semester program Lunch served.
Liahona Fellowship, 7.30 p.m., Claude Norris' home. Group meeting. Installation.
Lutheran Student Association Bible Study, 9:30 am; Speaker: Dr. George Swain
Morning prayer, 6:45 a.m. Danforth
Chael, Holy Communion, 7 a.m.
Monday
Mathematical Colloquium, 4 p.m., 30 Strong. Speaker: Robert L. Davis. "Lie Rings and Their Relation to Burnside's Problem."
Harzfeld's
Bermuda Shorts
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