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THE SCIENTIST. 
and the scientific course of study in the Un- 
iversity and received the degree of B. A. and 
B. S. in 1884, and in 1886 took the degree 
of M. A. for two years special work in En- 
The Frame Work of Wood, Iron and Bone. 
glish Literature. In ]8S8 he received the 
degree of M.. S. for special work in Natural 
Science. Prof. Dyche has not written much 
for publication, but a recital of his active life 
will give an indication of the matter that is 
being gathered together, by work in the 
Statue Parthj Completed. 
school and laboratory, supplemented by ex- 
tensive travel. Fouri-i'n irips have been 
taken for natural history specimens, ranging 
over the country from Mexico *o Alaska and 
British Columbia, the duration of the trips 
varying from one to six months.' 
A most important feature of Prof. Dyche' s 
work is the collecting and "setting up" of 
large mammals, indigenous to American soil, 
which are being swept off the face of the 
earth with such astonishing rapidity that the 
coming generation must study Buffalo, Moose 
Caribou, Elk, Rocky Mountain Goat and 
Winding on the Excelsior. 
others from museum specimens. 
Since 1884 in addition to teaching and the 
overseeing of the Laboratory, Prof. Dyche 
has mounted six hundred birds and over fifty 
mammals, thirty of which range in size from 
a deer to a buffalo or moose. He has also 
The Co.npletel Statae^ Ready for the Skin. 
collected numerous skins of birds, large and 
small mammj.ls, and in .he storeroom can be 
seen a great number of specimens, labeled 
and catalogued, among them are nearly three 
hundred skulls with accompanying leg bon'' 
