Official Or^aii of tlie Kansas Cily Acailciny of Mience. 
VOL. V. 
KANSAS CITY. IMO.. OClOHErl 1801 
NO. 10 
L(^wis Liiidsey Dyelie. A. M., M. S, 
Kansas State Uiiiversily, Lawrence, 
Kins. 
Coin,; ilea l y E. T. Keini niid K. B. Troiiuiot. 
Not long ago we boarded the Santa Fe 
Express, and after a short but pleasant ride, 
swung off at Lawrence, Kans,, a prosperous 
city of over lO.OJO p ipulitioi and the county 
seat of Douglas county. 
Here is located one of the many thriving 
edu:a'ionil institutions of which Kansas is 
so justly proud, the University of Kansas^ 
now entering its twenty-sixth year of ac- 
tivity. 
The limited space will not permit an ex- 
tended account of all the buildings and sur- 
roundings, nor will it allow us to even men- 
tion half of the wondeiful things seen during 
a brief stay of only a few hours. We wish 
it had been days instead of hours. The 
special object of this visit was to meet Prof. 
L. L. Dyche, and to examine, personally, 
his taxidermal work, of which so much has 
been published in both Kansas and Missouri 
papers, they evidently vieing with one 
another to do the young, but skillful Taxi- 
dermist honor. 
Having had fifteen years experience in al^ 
branches of Taxidermy, we speak advisedly 
4 i/ Kelh^ 
Pi'of. Lewis Li}i dseij Dijche. 
when we say it is an easy matter for most 
any one to "stuff" a bird or animil, but quite 
difficult to attain any considerable skil[ 
in this line of work, and it is hardly proba- 
ble that any given period should produce 
