Campus Museums: Cabinets Of Curiosities

Margaret Dahlberg, Ph.D., vice president in addition to dean of academic affairs at Valley City State University inwards Valley City, ND authored an interesting brusk post service for her President's Corner column on Nov 30, 2018 acre she was serving equally interim president, "The Normal School Museum in addition to Lura Perrine."

 Dahlberg offers a description from a 1905 Catalog noting that the campus museum "...includes a rich collection of zoological types, an herbarium, a mortal collection of conchological in addition to geological specimens, in addition to a mortal collection of eggs..." Lura Perrine developed the collection during her 1892-1919 tenure equally a faculty member.

Natural history collections are unremarkably cited inwards histories of colleges.  You tin destination larn to a greater extent than inwards an article on JSTOR written past times Sally Gregory Kohlstedt that appeared inwards ISIS, a mag of The History of Science Society inwards September 1988 (Vol. 79, No. 3), "Curiosities in addition to Cabinets: Natural History Museums in addition to Education on the Antebellum Campus."

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