[Personal papers of E.H.S. Bailey, 1870-1923] 1647-1973.

University of Kansas.

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The University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence, Douglas County was established in 1864 under constitutional provision. KU is a major comprehensive research and teaching university that serves as a center for learning, scholarship, and creative endeavor. The university is committed to offering the highest quality undergraduate, professional, and graduate programs and offers a broad array of advanced graduate study programs. It fulfills its mission through faculty, academic, and research programs of in...

Kansas Geological Survey

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Administrative History The California State Geological Survey was created by statute in 1860. The act, entitled An Act to create the Office of the State Geologist and define the Duties thereof, appointed Josiah D. Whitney as the State Geologist. (Chapter 254, Stats. 1860) He and his assistants were to make a complete geological survey of the State and from this work publish reports, maps, and diagrams. The State could then sell the volumes th...

American chemical society

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Bailey, E. H. S. (Edgar Henry Summerfield), 1848-1933

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Edgar Henry Summerfield Bailey was born in Middlefield, Connecticut in 1848. He studied chemistry at Yale and earned his doctorate degree at Illinois Wesleyan. Bailey was appointed to the chair of chemistry, mineralogy and metallurgy at the University of Kansas in 1883, where he served variously as head of the Chemistry Department until 1918, in full- and part-time professorships until his death in 1933. In his first years at K.U., Bailey alone taught courses in general ...

Kansas State Board of Health

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The Kansas State Board of Health was created in 1885. It consisted of nine physicians, each a graduate of a medical college who had at least seven years of continuous practice in his or her profession. The physicians were appointed by the governor from all parts of the state for three-year terms. In 1908, a non-medical member was added. In 1951, the board was abolished and re-established as the State Board of Health. This board consisted of ten members, all licensed in the state, from a variety ...

Kansas Academy of Science

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The Kansas Academy of Science was organized as the Kansas Natural History Society at Lincoln College (now Washburn University) in Topeka (Kan.) on September 1, 1868. At the fourth annual meeting, in 1871, it changed its name to the Kansas Academy of Science (Transactions, 27, 30). The founding date establishes the Academy as probably the second oldest such state institute in the country, being junior only to a similar institution in Connecticut. The first dozen or so annual reports of the Academ...