Hunt Elk for Museum
A local businessman goes hunting to provide animals for Iowa's growing natural history museum.

A Scientific Expedition to New Mexico
A trip to the desert yields thousands of specimens for Iowa's natural history collection.

Macbride and the Lakeside Laboratory, Part II
Despite financial challenges, the Lakeside Laboratory was sustained directly by Iowa alumni for nearly 30 years and by Thomas Macbride for as long as he lived.

Hunters near Mason City, Iowa, recently came upon strange tracks in the snow. Following the trail they finally came upon a queer looking animal which had frozen to death. Its head and legs were drawn under bony plates of armor and its body rolled into a shape somewhat like a ball. It was an armadillo. Glenn J. Konvalinka, B. E. '15, of Mason City, was instrumental in having the animal sent to Professor H. R. Dill, University taxidermist, for mounting.

How the armadillo found its way this far into the north is a mystery, since its native home is South America and Mexico. The supposition is that it escaped from some circus.