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fields, must for a long time prepare the 

 way for the formulation of richer and more 

 fundamental conclusions and general prin- 

 ciples than we have yet been able to 

 achieve. We should not wait for some one 

 to state or demonstrate these laws. This 

 is yet, even for a genius, impossible. We 

 must contribute in partial, microscopic, 

 sometimes unconscious ways to the emerg- 

 ence of such laws. 



Professor Adams, speaking of the avail- 

 able and most useful tasks of the historian, 

 has a word which is equally good for us. 



To furmsh materialSj to do preliminary work, 

 is to make a better contribution to the final sci- 

 ence than to yield to the allurements of specula- 

 tion, to endeavor to discover in the present state 

 of our knowledge the forces that control society, 

 or to formulate the laws of their action.^* 



Not only is this a model principle, but it 

 emphasizes the value of our goal, for the 

 real philosophy of history will not be 

 written until geographic factors have had 

 broader and deeper recognition. Here I 

 do not speak as a geographic enthusiast, 

 nor in denial of the supremacy of the hu- 

 man spirit. 



Such then is the mode of advance of our 

 science — the old story of interest, hypoth- 

 esis, test, correction, publication, criticism, 

 revision ; progress by error, by half truth, 

 by zigzag, spiral and apparent retrograde ; 

 by aero-flight, by patient tunneling; some 

 at the salients of progress, and some in the 

 ranks of humble endeavor, the goal in front 

 of all. 



Albert Pebet Beigham 



Colgate Universitt 



LEWIS LINDSEY D7CHE 

 Lewis Lindsey Dyche, professor of syste- 

 matic zoology and curator of the collections 

 of manunals, birds and fishes, at the Univer- 

 sity of Kansas, died in Topeka, Kansas, Wed- 

 nesday, January 20, 1915. Professor Dyche 

 6* Geo. B. Adams, Am. Hist. Bev., 14, 236. 



was intimately associated with the life of the 

 university for nearly thirty-eight years, hav- 

 ing seen nearly every class graduated from the 

 institution. His first connection with it was 

 as a student in the preparatory department. 

 He entered the middle class of the prepara- 

 tory department in September, 187Y, at the 

 age of twenty years, being registered from 

 Auburn, Kansas. James Marvin was then 

 chancellor of the university. There were 12 

 members of the faculty and a total attendance 

 of students of 361, of whom 110 were of col- 

 lege grade. Mr. Dyche finished the senior 

 preparatory work at the end of the next year 

 and in September, 1879, became a freshman in 

 the collegiate department, enrolling as a stu- 

 dent in the classical course. In the year 1880, 

 however, on entering his sophomore year, he 

 changed his work to that of natural history. 

 He became a junior in the collegiate depart- 

 ment in the regular course of events in Sep- 

 tember, 1881, still enrolled in his newly chosen 

 field of natural history. 



In 1882 Mr. Dyche was made instructor in 

 natural history, but retaining his place in the 

 junior class. He continued his connection 

 with the instructional side of the university 

 until his death. Mr. Dyche was graduated 

 from the university in June, 1884, receiving 

 two degrees, that of Bachelor of Arts and that 

 of Bachelor of Sciences, he having combined 

 both the classical and scientific work then 

 offered in the university. He continued his 

 study in natural history at the university of 

 Kansas by entering the postgraduate course in 

 September, 1884, receiving his Master of Arts 

 degree in 1886 and his Master of Science de- 

 gree in 1888. His teaching title was during 

 these years " assistant," being equivalent to 

 the title of assistant professor at the present 

 time. 



In September, 1888, he was advanced from 

 the rank of assistant in natural history to that 

 of full professor of anatomy and physiology, 

 taxidermist and curator of mammals, birds 

 and fishes. In 1890 zoology was added to his 

 list of teaching subjects. We must remember, 

 however, that in the nineties the number 

 of both students and teachers was small and 



