Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-08
Prof. Nutting Returns From
St. Louis With Glowing Ac-
count of Gifts.
THE MUSEUM is ENRICHED
Assurance That the State University
Will Receive the Greatest Addition
to Its Museum Since Its Establish
ment-Many Specimens Given and
Others Purchased.
Special to Times : Republican,.

| Special to Times Republicans.
Iowa City, Dec. S.-Professor c. G
| Nutting, curator Of the Museum oil
the State University Of Iowa, has just
returned from the worlds fair grounds
with every assurance that the state
university will receive the greatest ad-
dition to it's museum that it has had
since its establishment. Professor
| Nutting and Professor Patterson have
been in st. Louis during the past tive
weeks securing and boxing the mater
ial the university is to receive from the
st. Louis exhibit.
This vast addition to the museum
! will be in the nature of gifts and pur-
chases from the various exhibitors at
the fair. There can scarcely be said
to be any limit to the range and as
sortment of materials promised Cur
ator Nutting and almost every depart
ment of the university will be benefit
ed by the carloads Of collections which
will soon be transferred from the gaze
Of the worlds fair public to the exhi-
bition rooms OF the state uni
versity museum. The departments
which will be most enriched thru the
activities of the university professors
are those Of botany, education, mineral
ogy and mining, zoology and the school
Of commerce.
Entire collections will be shipped to
the university from the exhibits OF In
dia, Ceylon, Porto Rico, Honduras, New
South Wales. Venezuela and the Sou
dan, Other most valuable collections
have been promised but are yet to DC
boxed and shipped from the Argentine
Republic, Nicaragua and the Phlllp-
pines. From the exhibit from Uncle
Sans new possessions Professor Nut
ting has every assurance that he viii
secure most notable collections In ZOO
logy, botany, ethnology. education and
geology. This part of the material VIII
be especially interesting and valuable
in view of our present relations to the
islands and when added to the mater
ial already on hand in the museum
from the same place, will make one
of the most valuable Philippine col
lections anywhere in the United States.
Among the foreign collections secur-
eQ IS d lItOSl liSSACoeaiis 1890
Of drug plants, numbering between two
and three hundred, collected in Hon
duras.
Sin the word has gone abroad that
the state university is soon to have
the finest museum building In the
country, Curator Nutting has received
numerous tenders Of rare and valuable
collections from all parts of the coun-
try. These will be accepted and put
in place as soon as the new building
is ready to accommodate them. Word
has come from the United States Fish
Commissioner that he has added to the
collection just promised the university
and shipped to the institution, collec-
lions of over 400 fishes from America
and Hawaii. To this collection ne
promises to add very valuable lot
Of fishes from Samoa.
The state university's museum now
ranks as one of the Target and most
complete in the country and with the
addition Of the rich and varied collec-
tons Just secured for it, it will I'M
doubtedly be awarded even a higher
place among the great museums OF the
world.