Professor Lewis Lindsay Dyche.

Professor Lewis Lindsay Dyche.

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 weather turned cold. With Professor Snow as his mentor, he soon excelled at collecting specimens and progressed rapidly in his studies. In March of 1889, just 12 years after he arrived in Lawrence, Dyche was appointed to the position of Professor of Anatomy and Physiology.

The description of Bill Sharp and Peggy Sullivan's book The Dashing Kansan, portrays Dyche as a "driving force in the establishment of the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas, a witness to the Peary-Cook race to the North Pole, and creator of the wildlife panorama at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair,"..who..."charmed Chautauqua audiences with talks about his exploits."

RG 41/0 Dyche, L.L.