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IOWA ACADEMY OP SCIENCE 
Prof E. D. Ball, now of the Utah Agricultural College, formerly of the 
Iowa State College of Agriculture, has published an aggregate of about 840 
pages of entomological subjects and is at present instructing some 400 students. 
Professor Samuel Calvin must always be counted among those who have been 
potent in advancing the cause of zoology in Iowa. Up to the year 1888 he taught 
zoology in the State University, instructing about 250 students, and it was 
from him that the three professors in the present department of zoology received 
instruction and inspiration. His death, just about one year ago, removed 
the most prominent member of the Iowa Academy of Science. 
Professor R. E. Call, now of the DeWitt Clinton High School, New York City, 
was one of the most active members of the Academy during the first years of its 
existence. I have been unable to obtain a list of his papers, but he published 
rather extensively on the fishes and mollusks, and also on bibliographic sub- 
jects. He was at one time teacher of zoology at the West Des Moines High 
School. 
Professor Gilman A. Drew, of the University of Maine, another of the early 
members of the Academy, has taken a prominent place among the zoologists 
of the country and has published some classic papers on the morphology and 
biology of the Mollusca. 
Professor J. E. Guthrie, State College of Agriculture, has published 113 pages 
of scientific literature and has assisted Professor Summers in the. instruction of 
pupils. 
Dr. G. L. Houser, of the State University, has devoted himself to building- 
up the magnificent series of laboratories of Animal Biology, probably the best 
equipped and best devised in the Mississippi Valley, accommodating 250 stu- 
dents at once. About 2,000 students have taken advantage of these facilities 
under his instruction in the twenty years since he began service at the 
• university. 
Professor E. A. Jenner, of Simpson College, and his predecessors have in- 
structed some 625 students in zoology, and have seen the laboratory equipment 
in microscopes increased from one to thirty-nine. 
Professor H. M. Kelly, of Cornell College, has published 23 pages of zoologi- 
cal matter, and has instructed 566 students in zoology, having at his disposal an 
equipment of $1,500. 
Dr. Albert Kuntz, of the State University, has, under the direction of Dr. 
Houser, published 221 pages, the result of his original investigations on the 
embryology and morphology of the sympathetic system and the embryology 
of the adrenals. He has also assisted Dr. Houser in the laboratories of animal 
biology. 
Professor A. L. Leathers, of Leander Clark University, reports that there were 
seven students of zoology of collegiate grade during the year 1909-10. 
Professor T. H. Macbride deserves honorable mention among those who have 
advanced the teaching of zoology in Iowa, as he, with Professor Calvin, taught 
that science in the State University in the early days of the Academy, ana 
established what was then a series of laboratories and courses of w^hich the 
State was justified in being proud. 
Professor W. H. Norris, of Iowa College, is recognized as one of the leading 
zoologists of the State. He has contributed 118 pages of excellent morphologi- 
