Personal Papers of Lewis L. Dyche 1882-1914

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Personal Papers of Lewis L. Dyche 1882-1914

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/0546075092

Dyche taught Natural History and Zoology at the University of Kansas from 1882-1914. This collection contains correspondence, diaries, published materials, notes and research, a manuscript, photographs, artifacts, and five scrapbooks.

8.75 linear ft (10 boxes), 3 oversize folders

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library University Archives

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Dyche, Lewis Lindsay, 1857-1915

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Dyche received his AB.BS. in 1884, his A.M. in 1886, and his M.S. from KU in 1888. He joined the faculty of KU as an Instructor of Natural History in 1882 and became a Professor of Systematic Zoology in 1889. He became world renown at the 1893 Colombian Exposition (World's Fair) in Chicago when he displayed his collection of taxidermied animals from around the globe. These animals constituted the beginning of the Museum of Natural History at KU, which is housed in a building named in his honor. ...