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The library of the University of Kansas was not organized until long after the University opened. At first each professor gave the students in his department access to his private reference books. Later these books were collected into one library, and different volumes were brought out. No one person was employed for full time and there is no complete record of the number of books in the library until 1874, when there were less than 1,000 volumes. In the years that followed, more books were taken from
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
1874, For the years 1877-1920, the following numbers have been taken from
the table below.
Vol.s. Vol.s. Vol.s.
7 2519 1881 4500 1885 7000 1899 11,050
8 2750 1883 6430 1887 7750 1890 12,528
9 2100 1883 6200 1887 8035 1891 14,826
8 2844 1884 6500 1888 9207
Volumes
1895 ... 22,735
1900 ... 33,135
1905 ... 43.5
Begining with the year 1895, the records for each five years shows
Beginning with following increases:
Pamphlets
Classical Museum
The Classical Museum is situate on the second floor of the south wing of Fraser Hall. It contains a number of artworks, models of architecture, relief maps, facile multi reproductions of early Roman sculptures, Roman texts, many specimens of Roman household objects, and a large number of framed photographs and colored plates of ancient architecture. Prof. A. M Wilcox is the curator.
Geology
Occupying the entire second floor of the museum, the specimens representing the economic, petrographic, mineralogic, and pathological characteristics of mineral formations, where almost every important mineral in the earth is systematically according to chemical analysis and geographic location. The other series of fossil representing the different geologic formations. Kansas fossils are especially well represented. A large number of biological classification and geologic sequence. The Geologic Museum is the kind of museum that is famous for its system of labeling. It is in charge of Prof. C. J. Patterson.
Fine Arts
At present, (1922), the library contains 144,429 volumes
Fine Arts collections are confined chiefly to the Thayer Art Museum, in St. Louis, and Mrs. William B. Trayer of Kansas City. Paintings from the American West are a series of textiles, ceramics, glassware and costumes, with a number of art novelties including old shirts, dresses, and shoes; in bronze, make up the 9,000 or more items the collection. A number of European painters are represented.
The Brymwood Collection of paintings by James W. B. Thayer, is in the Woodward of Lawrence, which contains a number of oil paintings, pastels, and water colors, has been loaned to the University of Virginia. The two collections, now under the care of the University of Virginia, are valued at $25,000. W. B. Thayer, are valued at $25,000.
Botany
The herbarium, housed in Snow Hall, is representative of the flora of North America. It is especially rich in herbs such as those found in the mountain regions of Colorado and New Mexico. Aside from the type specimens there is much additional information that can be obtained for the purposes. Dr. Craig M. Charles is in charge of the herbarium.
Museum of Natural History
Volumes Pamphlets
1910 68,345 40,000
1915 100,000 43,200
1920 132,638 44,000
More than 300,000 specimens comprising 27,000 species and 1,000 types, representing more than 50,000 species are in the south section of the top floor of the Dyche Museum, and also on the second floor. The museum has a large collection of the original displays, is one of the most complete, and contains more than 100,000 specimens. It alone is valued at $4 million. It is one of the largest connected with any educational institution in the United States, Prof. S. J. Hunter department holding the collection.
Museum of Natural History
The Dyke Museum has a natural history. It is the finest collections of mounted animal and bird specimens and valuable fossil remains, of any university museum. It is the University Museum of Natural History and H. T. Martin, curators respectfully, memorials, birds, fishes, and reptiles and those included in the vertebrate paleontology, paleobotany, and ethnological groups. Inventory of the first animals of North America, Panorama displays of animals com-ming with America, mounted in life-like postures in background resembling their natural surroundings, shows about three thousand species on ground floor. Photographs and histories explain the different groups.
hibition, more than four thousand mammal skeletons and skins, catalogued and available for research, are waiting display space.
Ornithological collections occupy the entire second floor. Birds from the tropics as well as those common to temperate climates are housed and in bird groups designed to show breeding habits or life zones. Nearly two thousand birds are mounted in the glass cases, while more than eight of them may be been arranged for study purposes.
On the first floor or basement are the collections, preserved in liquid, of about 100,000 items and about three hundred, and are complete for the state of Kansas, with many objects from Greenland and Alaska, not now open to the public for lack of display spaces, also is on the first floor. Monumental beetles, deer, and fishing tackle and hunting carparchalmir, cover the western hills of the country. Other specimens common to foreign countries, with no special classification, are kept in the work room of a museum.
in paleontology and paleobotany the collection found on the third floor of the museum is one of the most representative from all the chief geological areas from Kansas rank especially One of the three collections of Patagonian specimens are the collection on display. Reptile and bird specimens on display are both rare and valuable. In the collection of paleobotany thousands of fossil reptiles and birds are
The series of fossil horse material containing specimens of skulls, feet and teeth, show well the evolution from the small three-toed variety to our present horse. Arrangements are based on the evidence that complete as possible through exchanges.
The flying reptiles (Pleurodactyls),
from the chakk of beds Western Kansas,
are exceptionally fine, and are
neglected in the migration of
rare forms in the country.
The fossil fishes from the Cretaceous of Kansas is by far the most complete known from this formation.
a valuable stitch exhibition is being made of a block four feet square and fifteen inches thick, containing several skulls, lower jaws, and limb
bones of a small land rhinoceros (Diceraterm) from the Agate Springs fossil quarry of Sloux County, Neb.
Recently an ethnological study was begun. Collections from the Belgian Congo were added, and Americas, and especially Kansas. Thousands of other specimens, including weapons, domestic utensils, garments and household effects, are on display. A series of modern war material is now on exhibit.
George Lymn, M. A. 23, entered Yale University this fall. Mr. Lymn has been working in the research Electric Co. at Schenectady, N. Y.
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