Statistics on Color-Blindness among the Students at the State Agricultural College

1887 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
C. M. Breese
Keyword(s):  
Color Blindness ◽  
The State ◽  
Agricultural College ◽  
State Agricultural College

Benjamin F. Mudge, the State Geological Surveys, and Fossil Collecting in Kansas, 1864-1870

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leroy Page
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Geological Surveys ◽  
Agricultural College ◽  
State Agricultural College ◽  
Fossil Vertebrate ◽  
One Year

B. F. Mudge (1817-79), appointed the first Kansas State Geologist in 1864, served for only one year. Inexperienced, and with no chance of fulfilling the requirements of an expansive law, he was succeeded in 1865 by G. C. Swallow (1817-99). Aided by F. Hawn and the other former members of Mudge's survey, Swallow, who received a larger budget and an open-ended appointment with no specified duties, produced a more impressive report, although he was not funded in 1866. Mudge went to Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, where he became the preeminent Kansas geologist during the years 1866-70. Although better known for his fossil vertebrate collections in the Cretaceous of Western Kansas in the 1870's, Mudge made significant invertebrate collections from the Cretaceous. Building on the foundation laid by F. V. Hayden and F. B. Meek, he was able, with considerable input from Meek, to make a major contribution toward elucidating the stratigraphy of the Kansas Cretaceous.

Benjamin F. Mudge: The First Kansas Geologist

1984 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leroy Page
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
The State ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Marine Reptiles ◽  
Agricultural College ◽  
State Agricultural College ◽  
Fossil Bird ◽  
Geological Map

Benjamin Franklin Mudge (1817-79), originally from Massachusetts, was appointed State Geologist and Director of the First Geological Survey of Kansas in 1864. After failing to be reappointed in 1865 he became Professor of Natural Science at Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, whose president, Joseph Denison, was an old friend and fellow Methodist. Mudge taught courses in all areas of science and spent his summers geologizing in western Kansas. An avid collector, he sent fossil specimens to Edward Cope, O. C. Marsh, and others. In the summer of 1872 he discovered a Cretaceous bird, Ichthyornis dispar, described by Marsh at Yale as the first fossil bird known to have teeth. In 1873 the KSAC regents replaced Denison by John Anderson, who dismissed Mudge and two others in February 1874 after they complained to members of the legislature about misuse of college funds and tried unsuccessfully to defeat legislative confirmation of some of the regents. Mudge then was employed by Marsh to collect fossil vertebrates (1874-77). Assisted by Samuel Williston and other former students, he sent to Marsh a large number of specimens of marine reptiles, pterodactyls, and birds from the Cretaceous beds of western Kansas. In 1877 he was sent to Colorado, where he supervised the quarrying of dinosaur bones at Cañon City. Strongly religious and a staunch opponent of slavery and alcohol, Mudge was regarded highly as a teacher and collector. He published in 1875 a description of the geology of Kansas which contained the first geological map of the State. He also was cofounder and first president of the Kansas Academy of Science.

TWO NEW SIPHONAPTERA FROM COLORADO

1928 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 148-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The State ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Agricultural College ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
State Agricultural College

The author of this paper is indebted to Dr. C. P. Gillette of the Colorado State Agricultural College for the privilege of studying a part of the State College's collection of Siphonaptera, in which were found the two new species described below. Unfortunately the specimens of these two new species are somewhat mutilated but after careful examination it is possible to publish the following descriptions.

scholarly journals COLORADO BOMBIDÆ

1902 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. S. G. Titus
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Agricultural College ◽  
Unpublished Thesis ◽  
State Agricultural College ◽  
State Board

During 1900–01 I made some studies on the Bombide occurring in Colorado. This paper is an abstract of those studies, the main body of which is in an unpublished thesis deposited with the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture at Ft. Collins, Colorado. The material used is in the collection at the State Agricultural College of Colorado, and in my own collection; also a few specimens at the U. S. Nat. Mus. Most of the collection passed through the hands of Mr. Wm. H. Ashmead, who corrected determinations and who very kindly looked over the table given below, not only making corrections in it, but adding some species I had not recognized.

“To Spread Throughout the Land, an Army of Practical Men”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Dorn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
The State ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Agricultural College ◽  
The Common

This chapter discusses the emergence of a social ethos of practicality in higher education by the end of the nineteenth century. Throughout the antebellum era, the expansion of scientific and technical knowledge joined with the rise of political populism to lead existing institutions to add practical studies to their curricula. Many advocates of practical studies, however, were not satisfied with simply incorporating courses or appending schools to already-established colleges and universities. They sought to break with tradition by establishing a new kind of higher-education institution, one that would teach students scientific and investigative principles while also requiring the application of those principles outside of the classroom, both on the farm and in the field. This new institutional type would contribute to the common good by being unprecedentedly accessible and affordable to agrarian and laboring youth. The chapter then looks at the establishment of the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan.

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