. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . he fire-proof stack is 24,147. Whilethis munber is not large, the books are selected with thegreatest care, and the latest and best authorities are collections in botany, entomology, zoology and geology comprise about ,000 specimens. The herbarium includes about 5,000 speciesof plants, arranged systematically for study and ex
. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . he fire-proof stack is 24,147. Whilethis munber is not large, the books are selected with thegreatest care, and the latest and best authorities are collections in botany, entomology, zoology and geology comprise about ,000 specimens. The herbarium includes about 5,000 speciesof plants, arranged systematically for study and examination. In the entomological collections are found over 20,000 species, representing all thedifferent orders of insects. The extensive collection of North-American mammals has a national reputation foi-its artistic excellence, bpe^iniensof birds to the number of 1,500, belonging to 500 different species, are found iu the ornithological cabinets,series of mounted skeletons. The mineralogical and geological collections comprise about 100,000 specimens,zoic invertebrate fossils, particularly those of the carboniferous of Kansas, is contained in the geological collectionsvertebrates and cretaceous plants are among the most noteworthy of the ^IfHEMISTRI BUILDIN6( C^ .1 I f«. I -J— The study of osteology is aided by aAn excellent series of typical paleo-The collections of mesozoic (22) The School of Eugineeriug is well equipped with mod-ern apparatus. There are field aud laboratory instriinientsof all kinds, among which are a precise level for accurateleveling, a secondary triangulation transit for topographicalwork, an alt^azimuth instrument for use in primary triangu-lations, which has a lU-inch circle, read to single seconds ofarc, a 3,000-pound cement-testing machine, an Olsen 100,000-poimd testing machine, machine saws, polishing wheels, laboratories of the University afford the best modernfacilities for practical work in physics, chemistry, botany,aud ligh
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