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Spooner reading room, north wall.

These glass bottles and tubes came from Professor Bailey’s laboratory in Bailey Hall. One has a partial label that reads “Sample of Helium(?) Natural Gass. Analyzed(?) in Kansas. From Iola, Kansas. Bailey and Cady” Cady is professor Hamilton P. Cady…

He delivered lectures for 6 months across Kansas describing his Arctic adventures upon his return from Alaska. He went to Alaska in June 1896 through October to hunt white Dall sheep to bring back as specimens for the Natural History Museum on…

Early in September 1877, twenty year old Lewis Lyndsay Dyche drove a covered wagon with a friend to Lawrence to enroll as a student at the new university. They set up camp near the site where Spencer Art Museum now stands and lived there until the…

Beloved teacher and renowned scientist, Francis H. Snow rose from the ranks of the faculty and was chosen as the fifth chancellor. During his tenure from 1890 to 1901, the University reorganized, the endowment was association was created, the first…

"When this week's papers informed me that you now were Chancellor of Kansas University, I had a feeling of regret that so good a teacher and so earnest an investigator had been asked to become a manager as well. But when I rememberd that Jordon of…

The diary mainly consists of drafts of a petition dated November 1864 to be sent to Lt. General Harder "in behalf of the federal officers confined in this military prison, hereby respectfully submit in protest against the treatment which we have…

Starting at left are Spooner Library, Dyche Hall and Museum of Natural History, Green Hall, Fraser Hall, Blake Hall, Snow Hall, Bailey Hall and the Fowler Shops.