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Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 1959-1964, Vol. 12 Except for scattered observations at earlier dates, field Work on this study began in June 1953, and was also carried out in parts of the summers of 1954 and 1957. A total of roughly 60 days in the field was devoted to this project. The laboratory section of the study was started in December of 1952 and was terminated in December 1957. About the Pub...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Vol. 9: Museum of Natural History, 1955-1960 Approximately museum study skins and skulls were studied. Most of these were assembled at the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, but some were examined in other institutions. Specimens were grouped by geographic origin, age, and sex. Studies of the role of age and sex in variation were made. Because it was discovered that secondary sexua...

Excerpt from American Weasels Even though most weasels are intractable as pets, they have a value to man, as, for instance, when he is plagued by mice. In a field where mice and other small rodents are so abundant as to damage cultivated crops, the weasel is the farmer's best friend. A weasel may inhabit one den until the rodents thereabouts are al most exterminated in an area two or three hundred yards across, in this way the weasel acts as ...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Vol. 3: 1951 The University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, are offered in exchange for the publications of learned societies and institutions, universities and libraries. For exchanges and information, address the Exchange Desk, University of Kansas Library, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A. Museum of Natural History. - E.Raymond Hall, Chairman, Editorial C...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 1946-1950, Vol. 1: 1946-1950 The history of pocket gophers of Utah begins with J. A. Allen's mention in 1874 of mounds of these animals. For them he employed the name "Thomomys rufescens?" (1874:65). Actual specimens were reported upon a year later by Elliot Coues (1875:251, 256), who used the name Thomomys talpoides for specimens from "Utah" but later in the same pape...

Excerpt from Geographic Variation Among Brown and Grizzly Bears (Ursus Arctos) In North America, Vol. 13 Detailed measurements and notes on which the following summary is based are on file at the Museum of Natural History, Uni versity of Kansas, and are available for study by later students interested in geographic variation of these bears. Three facts that complicated such study are an unusual amount of variation, the unavailability of ade q...

Excerpt from Handbook of Mammals of Kansas Black Bear Raccoon Mink Long-tailed Weasel Black-footed Ferret Badger Striped Skunk Spotted Skunk River Otter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving th...

Excerpt from In Memoriam: Charles Dean Bunker, 1870-1948 Charles Dean Bunker died on September 5, 1948, at his home at 1380 West Ninth Street, Lawrence, Kansas. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered from the tower of the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas. He was born on December 12, 1870, at Mendota, Illinois, the youngest of the seven children of David and Susan Jane (spencer) Bunker. On January 19, 1897, at Lawren...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 1952-1955, Vol. 7 Figure 1. Map of the University of Kansas Natural History Reservation Showing locations where opossums were live-trapped. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-ar...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Vol. 10: 1956-1960Considerable interest has been occasioned in recent years in the eastern United States by large-scale accidents to night-migrating birds. Most accidents have occurred in the autumn. The wide spread adoption by airports of an instrument called the ceilometer, which measures the height of cloud ceilings by reflecting from them a high-powered beam of ligh...

Excerpt from Collecting and Preparing Study Specimens of Vertebrates Head each notebook page with collector's name and year, page number (if number system is used), locality (in detail the first time used), and date. Write full notes, even at risk of entering much information of seemingly little value. One cannot anticipate the needs of the future, when notes and collections are worked up. The following are suggested topics, but do not restr...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 1954-1956, Vol. 8 The following table, compiled mostly from information set forth by Taylor indicates some of the main differences and similarities between species in the chief characters upon which the classification is based. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book...