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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY, 16, 1941
Mastodon's Jaw Bone ToBeShowninDyche
This is the first of a series of articles concerning new exhibits now being placed in Dyche museum, which will be reopened this spring in connection with the University's Seventy-fifth anniversary celebration.
It was a warm day in June, 1877. Three Lawrence men, W. W. Tweed, N. P. Deming, and Prof. D. H. Robinson of the University decided it was an ideal day for a fishing trip. A short time later they were casting their lines from the bank of the Wakarusa, three miles south of town.
After fishing from the bank for a while, the men decided to wade out into the creek. When one of them stepped into the water, his foot struck a sharp object, and he and his companions were curious enough to dig the $ ^{*} $
were curious enough to object out of the mud—.
History Making Discovery
The discovery made history. What the three men dug up from the bottom of the Wakarusa was the lower jaw bone of a mastodon.
This was the first fossil placed in the Fraser collection, later moved to old Snow Hall, the building which formerly stood in front of the Watson library. The fossil formed the nucleus around which the division of vertebrate paleontology of the museum was built. The specimen can now be found in the basement of Dyche museum, in the elephant and mastodon case which contains specimens of these animals found in Kansas.
A study of fossil forms shows the mastodod to be distantly related to the present day elephant, and the specimen in Dyche indicates that
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the animal was about the size of an Indian elephant. Dr. H. H. Lane, curator of the museum, estimated the mastodon to be about nine feet high, weighing approximately 4,000 pounds, and with a tusk about six feet in length.
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Specimens of either mastodons, elephants, or both, have been found in every county in Kansas and are the most commonly known fossils in Kansas. These creatures became extinct in North America during the "Ice Age" which closed about 25,000 years ago.
The specimen found in the Wakarusa, along with other Kansas specimens, has been set up in Dyche museum to show the evolutionary development of elephants and mas-
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illness; however, he is expected to return soon, and his place will be held open for him.
M. S.C. MAY—
The M.S.C. will decide the fate of the petitions asking for reorganization of the book exchange on a non-profit basis. The Council can take no direct action on the matter, but is expected to pass the petitions on to W.S.G.A. with a blessing.
Filling out the order of business will be a report from the two University representatives to the Big Six student council meet in Lincoln, Friday, and Saturday.
CAPT. BARTLETT-
the North Pole. Bartlett holds the record of being the farthest north on the earth's surface of any living white man.
In 1913 he captained the "Karluk" which carried the Canadian Arctic Expedition through the Bering Sea to the western Arctic. When the ship sank, crushed by ice, Captain Bartlett succeeded in getting his party to Wrangel Island and then himself walked 1400 miles to a Siberian outpost where he organized a
todons. Walter Yost, fine arts graduate, has made paintings showing these animals in their surroundings at different stages of their development. These paintings are shown along with the fossil remains as a background for the exhibit.
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