Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sporadic Papers
The des mornes academy OF science, in presenting to the scientific public this, its first, contribution to the literature of science, hopes to initiate a series of publications which will ultimately cover, more or less completely, the natural history of the entire State. To this end a number of gentlemen, specialists in science, some of whom are residents of Iowa, have been invited to prepare papers on topics of general interest or value. Succeeding numbers of its bulle tin will present the results of investigations conducted in other branches of science.
The immediate occasion for the publication of matter of this kind rests in the utter dearth of a natural history literature pertaining to Iowa. It is believed that many persons, intelligently interested in studies of this character, do not become actual students because there are no publications devoted to the natural history of the state. To all such it is hoped these Bulletins will commend them selves as intended to foster an intelligent observation of the unrecorded facts abounding on every hand. To facilitate the accomplishment of this purpose, objects of natural history, of whatsoever kind, are earnestly desired by the Academy. Collections of such a character will serve, first, to enable the insti tution of a well selected and carefully preserved museum, and second, to enable the placing of the objects collected in the hands of competent students for study and report.
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