The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-14
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.

higher education in Indiana. Its first class
of four was graduated in $780, since which
time nearly 200 names have been added to
the roll of its alumni, among them names
eminent IN the political, professional edu-
- s-ca,f onal and industrial interests of Indiana
me Under the wise and benign management of
mo President Moss assisted by such instructors
SEM as Kirkwood Jordan, Van Nuys Clark At
brai water, Wyle, and Others the university has
hi made a notable record in the last decade and
has at all times lived up to its motto of "ux
s. ct veritas" 1t has at the present time 166
OF college students proper, and 200 preparatory
students and corps of eighteen professors
and instructors and was never in a more
d 1ourishing condition. The building just
r. destroyed was a fourstory brick in gothic
p style and contained the geological museum,
-e fe nemical and physical laboratories, and the
verbrary; on the third floor, where the loss is
fell dereatest because irreplaceable by money
late byere the museums of zoology and compare
truthtive anatomy. 1t will be difficult, if not i'm
nj essible for the classes to accommodate them
es to the remaining building, and it is to
ped that the board of trustees will find
LEMoNT way to relieve the students and facul-
four miles the material difficulties this accident
another trihrust upon Them The entire Owen
Iallng OF let containing $1,000 specimens of fos-
the suppo1nd minerals, was in the possession of
ing the delniversity In this collection were the
nnderfba' nal types of many species new to sci
They were described by Professor David Dale
SEN +. H. Sohgsh and others, as we'll as many noted
ter withiisimens both from America and Europe
long the most notable of these were the
DIcAxeletons, nearly perfect, of large icthy
reeeyetsaurus, from Wuremburg, and of a mega
Oh uenonyx from Henderson, KY, which is de-
voluntesribed and figured, fortunately, by Profess
served br Cope in DIR. Collects forthcoming report
wears the Indiana geological survey. The series
i ores of the useful metals was unusually
~FranSomplete and valuable. The university
RICE ri,erjes of Wards casts also DESTROYED,
ers was f. can be readily replaced The arrange
The etlent Of the cabinet was perfect, and the
nin,zhole in excellent order and occupied
siding nearly the whole of the basement floor of
II ia reroridng. The remainder was devoted to
Years Of age eor Van Nuyss private chemical
The runa way CORY, and was rich in fine
It is be i,eees y Of imported chemical appara
nave tus. The physical apparatus belonging
& Pac to the university and also many in
IN a bIo genious mechanisms made by Prof Wyie
esIIo were also destroyed with the building. But
well co the heaviest loss was in the geological cab
At Do met and is about equally divided between
the resi- the University and Professors Jordan and Gil
fright bert On the third floor, and occupying two
aid sides OF a large hall, Prof Jordans collec
ton of fishes the largest private collection in
sle duriithe world, and also the extensive collection
Of Prof. Gilbert. In these collections were
What typical examples of three hundred species
surely tIiescrbed as new to science by Jordan and
1uehlv Gilbert within the last eight years. There
,ommerwere also extensive collections in alcohol
nread IL belonging to the United States National
Ugh aboMuseum to Yale College, Cornell University
alllng otnd other institutions, which had been sent
hingss ar2 tb71spversty for determination and
long at a tssz An. Fortunately for science the
reamins 49, of these specimens had been
he horizon 81 I'd classified in the recent reports
III; tlllles * pal Museum. They were of i'm
urn at a losS value, however in comparing
t sLy, the sSclassfyng new species from time to
,r such time, and their loss not be made good
ONE" except by patient reexploration and seining
I'll of most of the fresh waters and sea coasts of
oshen the entire continent OF North America.
ngiai Prof Gilbert spent the greater part of last
nglis winter collecting fishes in the vicinity OF the
.tr;ma Isthm,ts of Panama under the direction of
I'd they wfof. Baird the United States Commissioner
glish GOO Fish and Fisheries, securing forty
ID go species new to science. These he engaged
no" in classifying during the present summer
but with the destruction of his type spec-
Ston mems the loss of his cabinet and valuable
rbit private library, the work is brought abruptly
trace to an end. The friends OF the University
oriali will sympathze deeply with the faculty and
sumo. students who will return from their summer
I io s,sttion to find .heir main college building
ashes and ruin. Buildings and libraries
laboratories and museums do not make
Presi university; they essential factors of it,
ptists however Back of all stand the teachers the
= tba alumni and, in this case the whole State of
ne Pre$ldenfana If these do their duty and work in
Jon, the essential ends of the University
Il not be defeated by this misfortune, and
III go on as independent OF fire and food