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

Find Armadillo in Snow
An unlucky denizen of a warmer climate was found in Iowa and given to the Museum of Natural History.

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.

The natural history department of Iowa University is making for itself an enviable reputation for scientific explorations. As is well known, Professors T. H. Macbride and Bohumil Shimek have heretofore made several trips to Texas and New Mexico, for scientific purposes. During the past summer vacation, they made another trip for the purpose of studing the white desert sands, the desert flora, and the lava beds of the Sacramento mountains. Their work was principally out from Tularosa and Alomagordo. Through a portion of the country traversed, no guide could be had, so they had to leave their team and driver, pack their own kit, and be their own guide. On one of these side trips, one hot day, after stopping to photograph and make collections, they picked up their belongings, all but the canteen of drinking water, and tramped on. The loss was not discovered until too late to find it--a serious loss in that country; fortunately, however, a little pool of fresh water was found, deposited by a passing storm. As a result of the expedition, several thousand specimens were secured, and hundreds of photographs were taken. The country over which the work was done is quite new--some of it explored now for the first time.