Overview The Francis Harper collection consists of the scientific and personal papers of the naturalist Francis Harper (1886-1972). It includes correspondence, scientific field notes and photographs, historical research materials, manuscripts and published works, as well as personal and family records, etc. The papers reflect his wide-ranging interests, but the major research topics represented are the animals and people of the Okefinokee [i.e. Okefenokee] Swamp and of northern Canada, as well as the...

Overview Dyche taught Natural History and Zoology at the University of Kansas from 1882-1914. He was also the Kansas Fish and Game Warden from 1910-1915. This collection contains correspondence, diaries, published materials, notes and research, a manuscript draft, photographs, and five scrapbooks documenting his professional interests and career as well as his personal life. The collection includes information from his travels, work and life in Lawrence, Kansas and at KU, and records from his time as...