tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73695429011837669902024-03-13T16:48:19.564-07:00Museum of Natural HistoryThis is the official blog for the Museum of Natural History at the University of Iowa. Explore the page and learn more about the museum. We hope you'll visit soon!UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-5540476986738837172013-07-31T06:38:00.001-07:002013-08-01T06:39:25.544-07:00Thomas Macbride-- He spoke, and Iowa heard<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“…Man has a natural
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">-Thomas Huston
Macbride</i><br />
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“Let’s brainstorm,” I say suddenly to Ryan, who sits at my
right behind the front desk. It is a command, more or less. Now that I’m
wearing a freshly-minted Education Staff nametag, I figure I’ve earned the
authority to dictate such orders to a volunteer—never mind the fact that he has
logged twice the number of working hours as I have, and that he would surely
have my job, were he of age.</div>
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Ryan looks at me quizzically, mostly because I have outright
interrupted his long-drawn exposition on the proper utilities of Facebook and
Twitter. He was about to set forth in detail why he keeps an account with the
latter site for the purpose of safeguarding his online identity.<span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;"> </span></div>
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“Is this one of your philosophical mind games?”</div>
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“No, it’s for this article. I’m stumped on what to say. Why
write about Thomas Macbride?”</div>
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“The building we are sitting in is named after him…” says
Ryan, blunt and befuddled as to how I could require further justification.</div>
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“But you can pay to have your name on a building,” I reply.
“There’s a name for every building in town. Why does Thomas Macbride deserve an
article? Why should we care?”</div>
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“Let’s see. What exactly did he do?” </div>
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I am well prepared to answer. After I was assigned to write
on Macbride it only took me a day to hunt down his biography and a day after
that to read it from cover to cover. But Ryan’s question is rhetorical; he intends
to answer himself, so as to illustrate just how simple it should be to spot the
virtues in a university forefather. And so, lifting open the countertop to exit
the desk, he moseys to a display on the opposite side of the lobby where, below
a black and white photograph of the pensive, long-whiskered Macbride, there is
a brief description of the professor’s work. </div>
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A minute passes as Ryan reads, and the birds chirp from
above the Pikes Peak diorama.</div>
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Then, “I know why we should care about him,” he announces
assuredly, turning from the display.</div>
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I am doubtful. “Why?”</div>
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“Because he started to get people thinking about the
environment here in Iowa. That’s why we have all of the natural areas that we
have today.”</div>
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“He was known as the ‘Father of Iowan Conservation,’” I
admit, entertaining the lad. “Here’s a nice quote of his on the topic: ‘…Man
has a natural right to a beautiful home, a beautiful city, a beautiful world….’”</div>
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“Start with that,” Ryan states, reentering the desk and
dropping down the counter with a proud, conclusive thud. “Start the whole thing
with that. The only reason we have places like Lake Macbride and other state
parks is because he started the idea. He was the revolutionary who said, ‘Hey
guys, we’ve got to take care of the land we still have here unless you want to
see it gone.’”</div>
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But I am not enticed. Perhaps he was the father of Iowan
conservation, but they do not call Macbride the “Father of Conservation.” He was
not Roosevelt, nor was he Muir. That Macbride was the first president of the
Iowa Park and Forestry Association is not the stuff of an essay. I offer my
rebuttal to Ryan.</div>
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“Someone would have done it eventually—out of necessity if
nothing else—because otherwise we would be living in a garbage dump. Does that
really interest you enough to read an article about Macbride? Sure, he had his
merits. But what makes him interesting?”</div>
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The point hits home. Ryan stares blankly at the neon green
patches on his Babolat tennis shoes, and groans a soft sound of perplexity.</div>
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“I don’t know,” he concedes. “I guess I’d have to know more
about the guy before I could tell you what’s interesting about him.”</div>
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He’s reached my same stumbling block.</div>
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“Well, let me introduce some facts,” I say. I’m not sure that
an entire encyclopedia of facts could make a long-dead botanist any more
enthralling, but it’s worth a shot. Flipping open my computer, I begin to read
down my list biographical notes. “Thomas Huston Macbride was born in Tennessee,
1848, the son of a Presbyterian minister. His family crossed the river and
settled in the prairie of southeastern Iowa in the early 1850s. Young Thomas
grew up on the prairie and was fascinated by its diverse flora and fauna. He
learned to read by age five, attended local lectures, and was substitute
teaching in Latin by fourteen.”</div>
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Ryan interjects. “There you go—a professor, who, at age
fourteen, was already teaching. That’s interesting.”</div>
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“Sure, good,” I remark halfheartedly. “Perhaps we can turn
that into something. Keep it coming.” </div>
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I continue my monotonous recitation. </div>
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“He was schooled in the languages and mathematics, first at
Lenox College in Hopkinton, Iowa, and then at Monmouth College in Illinois. At
Lenox, he was a student of Samuel Calvin, who would grow to be his closest
friend. The two encouraged each other to investigate the natural sciences, a
mutual interest. They would make weekend field trips to surrounding areas to
collect plant specimens and search for fossils. After college, Macbride began his
teaching career, mainly in math and language. But his passion was for natural
world. When Samuel Calvin was chosen to occupy the chair of natural science at
the State University of Iowa, he called upon Macbride to be his assistant. </div>
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“Thus, Macbride enters ‘Old Gold’ as Assistant Professor of
Natural Science in charge of Botany in 1878. It is during his time as a
professor that the new Hall of Natural Science—our building—is constructed. One
of the items placed in its 1902 cornerstone was a picture of Macbride, as if
fate had already determined that the structure would one day bear his name. Ironically
though, botany classes would not be held in this building during Macbride’s
life; the university required a library, auditorium, and classrooms for other
disciplines more urgently.”</div>
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Ryan lights up. “That’s interesting too—the fact that botany
was rejected from the new building. It just goes to show that Macbride had a
passion for something that people didn’t care much about at the time.”</div>
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He is right in this respect. The discoveries of Darwin and
Mendel were just decades young at the close of the nineteenth century, and the
study of natural science was only beginning to gain widespread traction as a
veritable university discipline. I am pleasantly surprised.</div>
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“I think that maybe you’re beginning to strike at something
important.”</div>
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“That’s right,” he says. Ryan has rebounded, assured once
more in the magnificence of Macbride. “He wanted to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">teach</i> people that nature mattered, and that’s why he pushed for
conservation of Iowa’s natural resources.”</div>
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“He also founded the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory,” I add,
scrolling to find my notes over the facility, “which was and is an ecological
learning center on Lake Okoboji in northwest Iowa. Macbride said that ‘Lakeside
Lab is a place where students study nature in nature.’ Add to this the fact
that he initiated the university’s extension program, which was aimed to bring
academic research to the population that made it possible. For Macbride, this
meant lecturing on natural science in small town settings statewide. One year,
he delivered 60 lectures in 50 weeks. He was a celebrity of a speaker—with his
background in the liberal arts, it is said that Macbride’s talks were just as
eloquent as his essays.”</div>
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Our coworker Kelsy slips behind the desk, returned from her
lunch, and stands with a confused expression, curious in our conversation at
the mention of Macbride.</div>
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“Ryan’s helping me brainstorm for that article,” I explain.</div>
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“I’m co-writing it,” he interjects plainly.</div>
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“You know about the slime molds, right?” asks Kelsy.</div>
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“I’m looking for something a little more moving.” </div>
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She shrugs. That Macbride was a scientific leader in the
identification and classification of mold is a fact hardly more interesting
than mold itself. (Granted, his specialty was in myxomycetes, a class of fungi
that look like the plants of an alien planet.)</div>
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“We’re trying to discover what it is that’s interesting
about Macbride. Ryan’s been on the trail of this brilliant idea…” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Brilliant</i> was a big word let slip. Too
big a word, perhaps. I cringe inwardly for admitting that Ryan is the brains of
our brainstorm. But I have to hand it to the kid, even if he does plan to be
picked up by his mom at the end of his shift. “So far, we’ve traced his
conservational efforts and their enduring impact on Iowa’s modern landscape
back to his passion for natural science education and the prairie roots from
which that passion bloomed.”</div>
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Kelsy’s interest is lost in my verbose thesis statement.</div>
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Again I continue, turning back to Ryan. “Let’s see if we
can’t squeeze anything more out of these last few facts: Like I mentioned,
Macbride fostered a strong friendship with Samuel Calvin. It is said that ‘one
of the finest things to be said of either man is that he loved the other.’ When
Calvin died in 1911, Macbride seriously contemplated resigning from
professorship, though he opted to remain and would soon go on to serve as
president of the university from 1914 to 1916.”</div>
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“You could say that the only reason he stayed in the
profession after Calvin died was because of his love for teaching and natural
history,” Ryan offers. “Make it really sappy.”</div>
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I chuckle at his suggestion. But maybe it’s not sappy at
all. Maybe that’s just the truth. Macbride was productive and energetic
educator, and persisted to be into his late age. In 1907, a twenty-year old
worker at the Lakeside Lab resigned because he “just couldn't keep up with
Professor Macbride,” who was then 61 and still actively overseeing the work at
the field station. When the professor finally left the university in 1916, he
kept speaking and writing on botany, conservation and a miscellany of other
topics. His last article was published in the Des Moines Register in 1934 just
three days before he died.</div>
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“I forgot to mention what I found yesterday when I was
looking through some of Macbride’s papers in the university archives,” I tell
Ryan, reaching below my seat for my notebook. “I’ll just read the poetic blurb
that I wrote about it. Don’t laugh: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thomas
Macbride’s legacy as an instructor</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is
best seen in the ornately-bound book stowed in the university archives, its
some hundred or more gold leaf pages each offering an inset letter of appreciation
to Thomas Macbride, hand-written from former students and colleagues, lawyers
and teachers and prominent officials countrywide.</i>”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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“That’s amazing. Obviously he was made to teach people about
nature. He changed their whole perspective about the natural world—that’s what
those letters mean,” says Ryan, this time a little more awestruck than
speculative.</div>
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“Yeah, he did.” I lower my voice to an emphatic whisper, not
so much for sake of the visitors who have just entered the lobby as for the
fact that I can feel the climax our discussion approaching. Ryan may have
started this thing but I’m going to sell it. “I read that no other professor
has had so many dinners held in his honor. The man was adored by his students,
commended by his colleagues, heralded nationally as a scientist—he was a
naturalist with evangelical zeal, moved to teach not for any other reason than
the subject of his teaching. That’s what it means to be a professor, in the
truest sense: not to work a classroom gig on the side of your research
projects, but to make a priority of pedagogy. To <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">profess</i>. And you can see that it worked; you can count the fruits
of his educational labors. There are 85 state parks in Iowa today. Before
Macbride, there were none. He spoke, and Iowa heard.”</div>
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“I think you’ve found the point of your article,” Ryan says.</div>
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I close my laptop and look up at him, and then over his
shoulder at the Thomas Macbride exhibit. Two young parents with their
stroller-strapped child stand before the case, investigating the professor’s fossilized
plants on display below his contemplative visage.</div>
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“Yeah, maybe there’s something to work with there.”<br />
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museum volunteer, I’ve been able to do all kinds of things: clean mammoth bones
caked in dirt thousands of years old (more fun than it sounds), lead tours
about Iowa’s natural past, teach children about topics like astronomy and
dinosaurs, and slowly collect a colorful cornucopia of Rusty shirts.
Unfortunately, none of these things can be done on my semester abroad in
Ireland, although I did pack a Rusty shirt—however, my semester in Ireland has
given me a fantastic opportunity to learn about another country’s past, both
natural and archaeological.</span></div>
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glance, Iowa and Ireland don’t look alike at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, Iowa has rolling hills and
farmland, bounded by two rivers, but otherwise mostly landlocked; Ireland is a
perpetually green island ringed with pebbled beaches and craggy mountains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Ireland was once underwater, like Iowa,
and a trip to the Ulster Museum in Belfast reveals Ireland’s underwater past:
like Iowa, Ireland was home to corals and crinoids, prehistoric cephalopods and
ammonites. The water gave way to a more arid climate, and Ireland’s watery past
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was once covered in glaciers, too; it’s hard to believe that a country so green
and vibrant now could have once been barren and icy, but just as Iowa was once
glacial, so too was Ireland. When the glaciers receded around ten thousand
years ago, they changed Ireland’s landscape – where the glaciers gave Iowa its
gently rolling hills, it gave Ireland some of its craggiest mountains and shorelines.
And just as I teach children about Rusty, who couldn’t survive when the ice
melted, Ireland is home to its own Rusty – this giant deer, for example, who
was the largest deer to ever have lived, and went extinct around ten thousand
years ago. (Ireland was home to plenty of other arctic animals as well, not all
of which survive today.)</span></div>
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easy to think that because Iowa and Ireland – or any two places on the globe –
are far away, home to different landscapes and people, that they’re profoundly
different places, now and forever. But the beauty of the natural world is that
it’s always there, no matter where you are; we’re always surrounded by
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those reminders take different forms: a volcano that erupted some 50 million
years ago left Ireland’s north coast with a ‘pavement’ of forty thousand
interlocking basalt columns, otherwise known as ‘the Giant’s Causeway.’ If you
can keep yourself from slipping on wet stone, you can chart a path across the
columns, which have withstood the test of time, a monument from a long ago
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elsewhere, the natural world I encounter in Ireland is similar to what I know
best - what I get to work with at the museum. The Ulster Museum, for example,
is home to plenty of birds, some of which live in Ireland permanently and some
of which migrate throughout the year—similar to Hageboeck Hall of Birds, which
is also home to birds native, and not native, to our state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Ulster Museum is also home to clay pots
made by Ireland’s first settlers, and if you placed those pots next to the ones
in Iowa Hall, only a trained archaeologist could tell you which came from
where. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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are there to tell us about places different from our own: a trip through Iowa
Hall is, after all, a trip through a world long gone. But natural history is
always with us, and as my travels in Ireland have proven, sometimes natural
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span><br />-Written by MNH Volunteer Catherine Babikian</div>
UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-5401070084795597802013-03-21T07:00:00.001-07:002013-03-21T10:39:14.632-07:00Sitting Beneath Mullet Pond <br />
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hidden at the heart of Iowa City. The ocean is 1113 miles away due east, and
yet farther to the west. But, here I am and here is the whale. The massive
skeleton of a whale, at least, hanging above my head.</div>
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of other skeletal specimens that inhabit one end of Mammal Hall, I look up
through its cavernous ribcage and into the skull, an arching maxilla with a jaw
like two tusks, altogether about the size and shape of a helicopter cockpit. It
is a 42-foot long, 4,400 pound, century-old right whale, and I am peering into
its skeleton, counting the fifty vertebrae that span its steel rod spine and
marveling at its many-knuckled hands not so different from my own. </div>
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Instructor and former museum employee Will Thomson documents
the tale, how it took over forty men of the Red Oar Crew to harpoon her and
bring her ashore, and how they rendered her there on the beach. She “yielded
over 750 pounds of baleen and over thirty barrels of whale oil.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An East Coast taxidermist would travel 150
miles to bargain for the bones—flesh-stripped bones with an aroma like a “factory
that had been turned into a home for unexpurgated skunks”—and then he would
send them inland by train, disguised as fertilizer material for cheaper
freight, to museum father Charles Nutting, professor of zoology at the State
University of Iowa. But this was only the beginning. For 12 years the skeleton
of Mullet Pond would be stowed away in a campus attic, unassembled, boxed in
crates, and largely forgotten, awaiting the construction of Macbride Hall and
the industrious knack of exhibit designer Homer Dill, who would order the
hundred-odd pieces and mount them to the ceiling of the gallery above my wooden
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Barred and bolted straight into the rafters, it is hard to think
that Mullet Pond could have been anything less than eternal fixture of Macbride
Hall, perhaps even the skeleton of the building itself, just missed by the
plaster and paint. But she is not. She was brought to this building. She has an
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the whale, but more so the fact that she has one to begin with. Mullet Pond was
once a skeleton in a body. She was a living, swimming, geyser-breathing animal.
Even in a gallery full of exhibits designed to display taxidermy within its
natural scene, it is too easy for one to forget that these specimens are more
than sculpture behind glass. Though they are extracted from nature, the same
flesh once blushed with blood. They must not be utterly disjoined from the
world just because they are now on display to it. Notice the hole in rib of the
moose—it is the mark of a bullet. See the form of a young human being—it once
had a name, a face, a mind. None of the exhibits have been exhibits forever.
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"A Whale for Iowa." <u>Palimpsest</u> 1987: 50-59.</span></div>
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Friday, seventeen children brave a dreary Iowa evening to come to the museum
and dig for dinosaurs, at the last Night at the Museum for 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Iowa Hall, they race each other across the
museum (while wearing “dinosaur feet” slippers) and wait for the others to
arrive. Some of them know quite a bit about dinosaurs already – able to name
the difference between a Tyrannosaurus rex, a velociraptor, a steogosaurus –
others (like me) know comparatively little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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the races subsist and pizza and juice devoured in Bird Hall, the children begin
the first dinosaur related activity – becoming miniature paleontologists. We
take a moment to talk about what a paleontologist does: they dig up prehistoric
animals, like fossils or woolly mammoths, out in the field, then study them in
their labs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of all, we talk about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">why</i> a paleontologist does their job: why
dig up old animals when there’s so much new to explore? Why take the time to
carefully retrieve the bones from the wild, clean them off with care, run tests
on them and make models for museums? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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child gets a plate covered in sand and fossils – they have to use a plastic
spoon to carefully retrieve their fossil from the sand. Some children dig right
in, pounding the sand to try and find their fossil, but others, in true
paleontologist form, take more time, scraping past the layers of dust to come
up with a dinosaur head (albeit plastic).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like real paleontologists, they want to know what kind of dinosaur they
have – sure, the dinosaurs have been in the sand (although only for a day or
two, not millions of years), but that doesn’t mean the children can’t learn
from them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real bones found in the wild,
and even their plastic counterparts, have much to tell us about an Earth that’s
radically different from today. We’ll never get to see it in our lifetimes, but
we can always make a good guess, which is what paleontology is about.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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– after trips through Bird and Mammal Hall, as per tradition – the children come
back to the discovery hub to try their hand at fashioning their own
dinosaurs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The floor covered in all
kinds of craft materials, from pipe cleaners to plastic jewels to paper and
scissors, the children grab everything they can in a minute and then set to
fashioning their own dinosaurs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of
them are crafty; others aim for a basic dinosaur that can “get the job done.”
All of them twist their pipecleaners and add their clothespins, trying to make
the best dinosaurs possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Children
are infinitely better at these kinds of things – my dinosaur is only a dinosaur
if you tilt your head to the left and squint; my dinosaur will not be roaming
the wild anytime soon.) </span></div>
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amount of children at Friday’s Night at the Museum points to our never-ending
fascination with dinosaurs – and the world of the dinosaurs by proxy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One child asks why the dinosaurs went
extinct, and others name off the theories: a volcano, an asteroid, disease, the
food chain bottoming out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet the truth
is that we’ll never actually know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
so much of science and history are based on facts – certain chemicals do
certain things when mixed together, or certain events happened at one
particular time and place – the dinosaurs, and their faraway, forest world,
elude us, no matter how much we uncover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After all, we only have the bones they left behind, and the rest is
guesswork: but it’s fascinating guesswork nonetheless.</span><br />
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UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-9331104338130237052012-11-27T06:42:00.002-08:002012-11-28T12:46:02.196-08:00Meskwaki- An Important Piece of Iowa's History<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin: 1em 0px;">
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think of natural history, we tend to imagine fossils and fish, animals with
ferocious teeth or giant claws, old bones and shark teeth. I think of Rusty and
his friends – the mastodon, the woolly mammoth – and the Devonian section.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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natural history is more than just the history of extinct animals – it’s a way
to catalogue our world, even as it changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At the tail end of the Iowa Hall gallery – past the prehistoric fish,
the swampy jungle, and Rusty himself – you’ll find a diorama of a Meskwaki
settlement, circa 1850, or right after Iowa became a state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s an important marker of Iowa’s past, and
filled with interesting artifacts to explore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In the
main diorama, an old man teaches a young boy how to carve wood – they sit
inside a winter lodge, which the Meskwaki built every winter, using a wooden
frame and a covering made of dried cattails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nearby, a woman makes a dye (although it looks like she’s cooking).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her cotton dress, and the wool blanket inside
the lodge, point to ongoing trade with settlers – after the first forays of
Marquette and Joliet, the first explorers to set foot on Iowa soil, trade among
Native Americans and settlers was inevitable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Yet I
find the more interesting artifacts in the nearby cases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beaded artwork abounds – the beads were
obtained via trading, but the artwork itself is entirely Meskwaki.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bows and arrows – even toy arrows for young
boys to practice with – and children’s toys cover the bottom of the gallery.
And perhaps the most interesting artifact is the necklace made of bear claws
and fur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only worn by tribal leaders,
the bear claw necklace is made from twenty to thirty bear claws, but the claws
have to come from a specific paw, so that each bear claw necklace comes from
four or five bears. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It’s easy
to get distracted by Rusty and Dunky, the vast dioramas that seem to take us to
another time – sometimes, the Meskwaki exhibit seems like yesterday in
comparison. But what happened yesterday is just as important as what happened
last week, or three weeks ago, or three million weeks ago. Iowa’s history is
both prehistoric and historic – made up of both the fossils and geodes we
unearth from the soil, and the people who came to live here before us, who left
traces of their life behind, so we might someday know about who walked in our
footsteps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shells and arrowheads,
projectile points and milling stones: just as fossils and bones tell us about
the animals who prowled around, so too do these artifacts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">After
all, we weren’t the first ones to set up shop in Iowa. Who wouldn’t want to
know about those who came before? That’s what the museum is for.</span><br />
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-Written by MNH Volunteer Catherine Babikian</div>
UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-54858402974924606462012-11-20T06:38:00.000-08:002012-11-28T12:48:30.219-08:00How to Stump a Set of Scientists<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To say we were stumped when a visitor stopped by with this
object on Friday would be an understatement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As you can see from the picture, it’s mostly spherical, about 5½” in
diameter, and shiny, as if its been polished.<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can’t tell this from the picture, but it’s
pretty lightweight, and the impression you get if you pick it up is that it’s
hollow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was found floating in the Des
Moines River about 60 years ago, and the owner stumped museum staff with it
then as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time, he asked staff
at the UI Paleontology Repository and the Museum of Natural History before
someone at the Office of the State Archaeologist finally solved the puzzle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We think this is an enterolith, or intestinal stone,
presumably from a horse (our research suggests that they are common in horses,
but found in some other animals too).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Enteroliths are a lot like gallstones or kidney stones in people, and
also something like pearls in oysters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They form in a horse’s intestines when the chemical conditions are
right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most enteroliths seem to be
formed of a mineral called struvite (ammonium magnesium phosphate), which forms
crystals in concentric rings around some starting “seed” (as a pearl does
around something like a grain of sand).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Horses seem to get them when they’re eating relatively high
concentrations of protein (for example from alfalfa), which generates ammonium
ions, and magnesium. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So enteroliths are
more common in some places than others because the minerals in soil and water
are different and because common food sources are different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Small enteroliths can be passed naturally,
but large ones need to be removed surgically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>According to an equine vet we asked about this, they are often much
larger than this one, and they’re usually quite solid and heavy—they are, after
all, stones!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means we haven’t quite
solved the mystery of this enterolith (if that’s what it is), because it feels
light and hollow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wonder whether the
mineral crystals inside the enterolith could have been dissolved by immersion
in the river, leaving the hard shell… and if any chemists, veterinarians, or
taphonomists out there want to do this experiment, we look forward to hearing
what you find.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Examples of other enteroliths</td></tr>
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UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-47583410956605910382012-11-13T07:53:00.000-08:002012-11-28T12:49:19.136-08:00A Visit to Undersea Iowa
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A trip
through Iowa Hall is very much a trip through Iowa’s past – step in the
galleries and you’ll see Iowa before it became farmland, before highways and
roads began to criss-cross the state, before Iowa City was even a city at
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">After
many, many trips through Iowa Hall myself, I’ve decided that some exhibits in
the gallery are easier to fathom than others.
We know of the Native Americans who used to live on the land, before
settlers came; we can even believe that Rusty, tall and large as he is, used to
live in an Iowa covered by glaciers.
(After all, sometimes the winter <i>feels</i>
like the Ice Age.) But it’s harder to believe that Iowa was once a tropical
swampland, and that it was once underwater, harder still.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
Devonian exhibit is the first in Iowa Hall, and it’s a true glimpse into an
Iowa that’s long gone: Iowa from 360 million years ago, covered in shallow,
sunny waters, filled with ancient cephalopods and armored fish? It’s true. </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwDRSL6XvGf4eOneef6gUVubPz8KZ1cPO1J1wD3t_QCG6Ny59ae9d5o_qYO6rA8glvlrjsGjVQKpgvArQN0WjMcudPdO4eW8siZPqh0O0pJeRKAIknxMznuLAt0Hhieg-dQti-tW5_oNM/s1600/DSC_0083.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwDRSL6XvGf4eOneef6gUVubPz8KZ1cPO1J1wD3t_QCG6Ny59ae9d5o_qYO6rA8glvlrjsGjVQKpgvArQN0WjMcudPdO4eW8siZPqh0O0pJeRKAIknxMznuLAt0Hhieg-dQti-tW5_oNM/s320/DSC_0083.JPG" width="212" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
armored fish in question would be Dunky – short for Dunkleosteus – a
prehistoric fish who used to rule the seas. We think sharks today are scary,
but a shark would have paled in comparison to Dunky (there <i>is</i> a shark in the Devonian exhibit, but it’s far smaller), who as
an adult would have been two stories tall and the length of a school bus. He could open his jaw as wide as it would go,
and it would create so much pressure that anything in the vicinity would have
been sucked in – this even included other fish.</span></span></div>
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the first animals to develop eyes, were around in this period, too – although
they went extinct at the end of the Devonian, the exhibit is home to many – as
are ammonites, which also went extinct.
Ammonites, which look similar to cephalopods, had huge, hollow shells,
and the ammonite could slide its body in and out, controlling its buoyancy and
position in the water. If it’s hard to
believe these animals really existed, it’s harder to believe they once lived in
Iowa, a place very much <i>out</i> of water
– but the fossils never lie. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Dunky
and the trilobites aren’t the only things in the exhibit – there are plenty of
animals that today you might find on coasts or coral reefs. Huge expanses of
coral, like what today you might find in Australia, cover the exhibit, as they
would have covered the ocean floor (coral, interestingly enough, is actually an
animal). My favorite, however, would
have to be the crinoids, or sea lilies.
They look like underwater flowers, but are actually delicate animals
that use the ocean currents to catch small, microscopic organisms to eat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But it’s
this varied, sometimes unbelievable history that makes Iowa’s past interesting
– it’s the idea that Iowa hasn’t always been farmland and rolling hills, but
instead a glacial paradise, a quasi-rainforest, or a shallow sea. And that’s why, even after countless trips,
Iowa Hall is still a fascinating place – we’ll never get to see Iowa as
anything but prairie and farmland, but step through Iowa Hall and you’ll get
amazingly close.</span></span></div>
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UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-80412544447372670272012-10-30T06:39:00.001-07:002012-11-28T12:49:38.756-08:00A Night of Fun at Creepy Campus CrawlF<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">or
weeks, the word – or words – of the day have been “Creepy Campus Crawl,” the
Halloween event that the museum puts on every year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year’s theme is Nintendo, and the museum
is flush with talk of Mario and Luigi, Pokemon and Zelda, stations and activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as they have every year, children start
to pour in right at 6:30, dressed as characters from Nintendo, Harry Potter,
Doctor Who, or whatever character they can dream up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(One child comes dressed as a vampire bat.)</span><br />
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front lobby, they meet some of the most classic Nintendo characters - entering
a raffle with the Ice Climbers, throwing fireballs with Mario and Luigi,
meeting Princess Peach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Packing peanuts
– the snow that the Ice Climbers have to climb – litter the floor, to be
tracked all around the gallery, but nobody seems to mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, the museum is hardly the Museum: it’s
instead a place of characters and costumes and candy, and everybody knows it.</span><br />
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they leave the front lobby, the children make their own Pokemon in the Devonian
and Pennsylvanian, aided by the Pokemon trainers, who have put together an
impressive array of characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although
the Ice Climbers might not be familiar to all children, Pokemon is hard to
miss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elbowing each other for room at
the tables, the children color in their own Pokemon cards – some very detailed,
some a quick dash - and then hand them to their parents to carry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In the
Meskwaki area, decorated with fluffy clouds to represent the world of Kid
Icarus, the children wrap aluminum foil around paper plates to make mirror
shields, assisted by Palutena and Medusa, the main goddesses from the
game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they finish, Pit, the game’s
hero, shines a flashlight on the shield to make it shine, and the children head
to the Ecology section to build rockets with the Pikmin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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more fun to be had downstairs – where the Geoscience department has set up shop
– and in Bird and Mammal Halls – where you can find rupees with Zelda and play skeeball
with the cast of Earthbound – but no matter where you decide to go, there’s
always something to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each child
leaves with an assortment of crafts – shields, Pokemon, rockets – and an
evening well-spent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And since Halloween
falls on a Wednesday this year, it’s only the start of an extravaganza. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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is that rare holiday where, for a few hours, you can pretend to be someone
else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter the strength of the
disguise – after all, the scary looking ghoul is always a child underneath –
it’s about the fun of playing pretend, of dressing up, of trick-or-treating and
pumpkins and ghosts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a few hours,
you can climb with the Ice Climbers or write yourself into the Legend of Zelda;
it only happens once a year, which makes it all the more worthwhile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-78523414956947406822012-10-16T07:27:00.001-07:002012-11-28T12:49:45.866-08:00Night at the Museum Visits Space!
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It’s a
cloudy night in Iowa City, but that’s not stopping this Friday’s Night at the
Museum, which focuses on the night sky and stars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The usual standbys are on the schedule –
pizza, Hageboeck Hall of Birds and Mammal Hall in the dark – but today’s
program features a visit from the Cedar Amateur Astronomers, who’ve brought
their telescopes all the way from Mount Vernon and set up shop on the
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there’s any stargazing, however, the astronomers have lots to teach – people
have been gazing at the stars for hundreds of years, all of them wondering what
was out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The children learn of
astronomers of old times – Eratosthenes, Ptolemy – who thought the planets
revolved around the sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They learn of astronomers
of (slightly) more recent times – Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler – who built
telescopes to see farther into the sky. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The children play with cardboard telescopes
for several minutes, looking at everything they can.) It’s easy to think of astronomy
as unfixed, unchanging, that for all of history people have looked out onto the
stars and come to the same conclusion, but our conceptions of astronomy are
constantly changing, as we learn more about the moon and the sun, the
constellations and the brightest of stars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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jaunt through Mammal Hall and some snacks in the Biosphere Discovery Hub, the
children don their fall jackets and head outside to the Pentacrest, where the
astronomers have set up two telescopes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s cloudy, so there aren’t many stars; instead, the children use the
telescopes to look right into the Old Capitol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Still, some of them find Venus, shouting, “It’s Venus!” and “Hi,
Venus!” as they wait.) Not all of them have used telescopes before, and they
come back for second and third looks, captivated by the view the telescope
gives them – they’ve all seen the Old Capitol before, but not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this </i>way.</span></div>
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as everyone’s back in the auditorium, the astronomers load a computer program
that’ll let the children see the stars without clouds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once they understand what they’re seeing, the
children want to see everything – they want to see the stars in all the
seasons, from every angle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The computer
program also maps lines on top of the constellations – sometimes the
constellations are hard to pick out, composed of bright stars and some very dim
ones – and once the astronomers show this feature to the children, they’re
hooked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s nature’s very own game of
connect the dots, and who can pass that up? They want to see the Big Dipper,
the Northern Star, Sagittarius and Gemini, the bear and the fish; they even
want to see Andromeda, the closest galaxy to ours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There’s
something about the stars that’s impossible to ignore – why else have we looked
at them for so long? We love mysteries – how we love the thrill of the
unexplainable – but what’s more, we love to solve them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet the night sky is that one mystery that
can’t be solved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re finding clues,
making patterns, but the real answer is forever hidden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And maybe that’s okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-6311503128667751112012-10-02T10:22:00.002-07:002012-11-28T12:50:00.258-08:00Ethnographic Collection
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">When it
comes to the museum’s collections, Rusty tends to steal the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s always the first animal we think of,
followed by the other animals and birds scattered across the museum galleries: when
people ask me what’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i> at the
museum, I always tell them about the walruses in Mammal Hall, or Dunky, the
Devonian age fish in Iowa Hall (after Rusty, of course).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But if
you take a trip around Iowa Hall, you’ll find a whole host of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">other </i>artifacts in the archaeology
section – clay pots, beaded jewelry, and who could forget the bear claw
necklace? </span></div>
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although we’ve written of the birds and animals in museum storage, there are
also plenty of ethnographic items in the museum vault, right next to Hornaday’s
birds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Open up the white drawers and
you’ll find items from all kinds of far-flung places: beaded vests, ceremonial
objects, children’s playthings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
come from multiple continents – places hard to get to, or hardly there at all –
and decades long gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of all, they
come from cultures I’ve never seen and people I’ve never met: looking in the
drawers is looking at another place and time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And wherever, whenever, the item comes from, it’s always somewhere very different
from downtown Iowa City or its surrounding corn (and soybean) fields. </span></div>
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lot of stock in the written word: at museums, I always search for the paragraph
or two of explanation accompanying an exhibit, sometimes before I’ve even
glanced at the objects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the shelves
of memoirs and autobiographies at the local bookstore speak to our faith in the
written records people leave behind. But these artifacts in the museum vault
have no convenient blurbs, no letters or diary entries attached to them – maybe
a tag indicating where and when they come from, but not much more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They speak for themselves, and invite us to
fill in the blanks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who sewed all those
beads? Who carved that arrow? Who really used that toy? And why? </span></div>
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we research and learn more about the artifacts – the ethnographic items in the
main gallery, for example, all have a sentence or two of explanation – the
questions still stand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, every
item in the collections has its own fascinating, and perhaps unfathomable,
history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each item’s been passed from
person to person, hand to hand, over the course of months or years, until it makes
its way to our collections, so that you or I can wonder where it came from, and
try our hands at filling in the blanks.</span></div>
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another Friday night at the museum – rather, it’s another Night at the Museum,
this one bug themed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Children gather in
the front of Iowa Hall, excited to spend an evening talking about the creepy,
crawling critters that skitter across kitchen floors and conquer their
backyards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Previous programs have focused
on things like penguins and the Galapagos Islands – fascinating in their own
way, but not something you’ll see at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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we have several bug activities planned – creating a “bug jar,” for example –
tonight’s program features a presentation from the Iowa State University’s Insect
Zoo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After pizza and punch, the children
head to the Biosphere Discovery Hub, where two entomologists have filled an
entire table with bug jars and butterfly cases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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first bring out mealworms – which flip if you tap their heads accordingly – but
the real action starts with the beetles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Small, black, and mobile, the beetles bounce around the tables as the
children try to identify the three parts to an insect: the head, the thorax,
and the abdomen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the beetles
crawl along outstretched fingers, jumping from hand to hand and occasionally
trying to make a dive to the ground.</span></div>
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the beetles come hissing cockroaches; these cockroaches are far bigger than the
ones you might see at home, about the length of a pinky finger, and of course,
they hiss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cockroaches, the children
learn, are decomposers – they eat things that are rotting, giving them a more
important role in the ecosystem than at first glance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cockroaches zoom around the tables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The children try tapping their shells so they
can move faster – sometimes they don’t budge, other times they nearly fall off
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see cockroaches—or other bugs—as unruly pests, and nothing more: the moment we
see them scurrying around the kitchen, we reach for the kitchen and squelch it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Insect Zoo, by contrast, gives the children
a chance to see them up close, to really investigate its antennae, or the
pattern of its shell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every animal,
every creature, is intriguing and intricate, but these little things get
overlooked in everyday life, in the rush of getting the bug out of the kitchen.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">millipedes, the children look to see how the thin,
orange legs—all 300 or 400 of them—propel the millipede around an outstretched
finger, and how the millipede attaches itself, like Velcro, to whatever
surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later on, the children learn
about a ‘walking stick,’ another decomposing insect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the presenters holds a walking stick
in her outstretched hand, and it falls from her hand at least five times – but
it keeps on walking anyways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
children look at a praying mantis in a glass jar, and come up to the front
table to look at butterflies in cases.</span></div>
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the tarantula that takes the cake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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a tarantula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-26041998664592029922012-09-04T09:28:00.001-07:002012-11-28T12:52:42.279-08:00Nature's Small Wonders Pack a Vibrant Punch!
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Take a
look around Mammal or Hageboeck Hall of Birds and you’ll find a cornucopia of
fascinating animals, from little sparrows and finches to impressive walruses
and bison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although these halls are home
to plenty of animals, even more reside in museum storage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Museum of Natural History has far more animals
in its possession than it has room for display – the attic of Macbride Hall is
teeming with beautiful animals from all over the world.</span></div>
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these animals were collected by William Temple Hornaday and given to the museum
after his death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A zoologist and
graduate of Iowa State University, Hornaday traveled far and wide to collect
animals – the deserts and beaches of Australia and the jungles of New Zealand
and Malaysia among them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His birds are
splashed with bright blues, deep crimson reds, and hints of green and purple, a
real change from the grays and whites of Iowa birds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hornaday might not have thought of it this
way, but he was collecting colors and patterns as much as he was collecting
birds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In 1886,
at the height of westward expansion, Hornaday began to collect buffalo from
Montana: he expected that buffalo would be extinct by 1900, and wanted to
collect specimens for future generations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The impending extinction of the buffalo pained him, and he became an
ardent conservationist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was friends
with Teddy Roosevelt – Roosevelt once gave Hornaday a jaguar skull he’d shot,
which the museum has in its collections – and together they formed the American
Bison Society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Hornaday, museums weren’t just places to deposit old things; they were places
for the future to learn about the past, even if the past was long gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although buffalo are not extinct today,
Hornaday collected them so that we would still know our past – the Museum of
Natural History does the same thing. Although not every animal in the museum’s
collections is on display, it still reminds us of another place, or another
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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favorite birds are a set of hummingbirds collected by Hornaday – we don’t know
where they’re from, but they sure are beautiful! Sometimes you don’t have to be
a walrus or a bison – or even a giant sloth named Rusty – to be
breathtaking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes the smallest
things are worth the most notice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hornaday surely knew it.</span><br />
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UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-12293663546751330662012-08-21T11:35:00.003-07:002012-11-29T08:58:03.622-08:00Welcome Back!<br />
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Welcome back students! It’s great to see so many faces back
on campus. I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing summer break! This
semester at the Museum of Natural History is full of exciting opportunities for
students and faculty. </div>
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Are you interested in volunteering or need to complete a
service learning requirement? Well, the museum is the place for you! We provide
opportunities for students to work in the gift shop and education department.
You can also help out with children’s programming, museum tours, and public
outreach – like the UI Homecoming Parade, FRY Fest, Creepy Campus Crawl, and
more! For more information about volunteer, please contact Ashlee Gloede,
Assistant Education and Outreach Coordinator – <a href="mailto:ashlee-gloede@uiowa.edu">ashlee-gloede@uiowa.edu</a>. Also check
out our booth at the UI Volunteer Fair on Wednesday August 29<sup>th</sup> from
11am-3pm in the IMU.</div>
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If you are not interested in volunteering, that’s okay too.
The museum offers a wide range from programs from children’s birthday parties
to adult lectures. And it’s also a fun place to hang out between classes. We
are open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 10am-5pm, Thursdays
10am-8pm, and Sundays 1pm-5pm. For more information about the museum, please
call 319-335-0606 or email <a href="mailto:uimnh@uiowa.edu">uimnh@uiowa.edu</a>.
This week only we will be open until 8pm on Wednesday! Stop by and meet Rusty
out Giant Ground Sloth.</div>
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Over the summer, the museum became involved with a mammoth
excavation in Southern Iowa. <span class="style11"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">For the past two years John and the family have kept the
discovery of the mammoth relatively quiet, but they recently decided to enlist
the help of UI experts to aid in the excavation. So far more than thirty
bones have been recovered, including an impressive femur, multiple ribs and
vertebrae and a few toe bones. We will be visiting the site periodically
throughout the semester, so if you are interested in volunteering at a dig
please contact Sarah Horgen – </span></span><a href="mailto:sarah-horgen@uiowa.edu"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">sarah-horgen@uiowa.edu</span></a><span class="style11"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> – for more information. I would
highly recommend this once in a life time opportunity! </span></span></div>
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There are many organizations and groups to join on campus,
and sometimes it can be a bit overwhelming. Tomorrow is the Student
Organization Fair at Hubbard Park from 11am-3pm., which you can meet and talk
with the different organizations on campus. A great organization to join is the
Campus Museum Collective. This organization is dedicated to strengthening the
position of campus museums within the University community. It seeks to assist
campus museums in efforts of outreach, while fostering a robust collective of
individuals committed to the advancement of these important institutions. If
you are interested in joining, please email <a href="mailto:iowa.cmc@gmail.com">iowa.cmc@gmail.com</a>
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Have a wonderful semester and remember to stop by the
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-Written by Assistant Education Coordinator Ashlee Gloede</div>
UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-26876745927792676272012-08-14T06:50:00.002-07:002012-11-29T08:58:11.183-08:00Hoover’s Hometown Days<br />
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the museum’s education staff visits a variety of places throughout the entire
state of Iowa to promote the museum, its programs, its collections, and more.</div>
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A few weeks ago (August 3 and 4), West Branch celebrated
Hoover’s Hometown Days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is an
annual celebration held at the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. The
weekend is filled with live entertainment, Hooverball competitions, birthday
cake, and over 70 exhibitors and vendors. And it’s not Hoover’s Hometown Days
without extreme heat! Well this year we were thrown for a loop; not only was it
extremely hot but we also got to experience 50+ miles an hour wind, lightning
strikes, and a torrential downpour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
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We had a booth at Hoover’s Hometown Days to promote and
spread the news about the museum’s upcoming programs and exhibits. Many
families stopped by our booth to tell us how much they enjoy visiting our
museum. Our favorite thing to hear! We were also able to inspire new families
to visit the museum. Throughout the morning the weather seemed to be getting
muggier and muggier, and the sky was starting to turn a dark shade of blue
(which is never a good sign). Moments later, park rangers began announcing the
upcoming forecast of 50 miles an hour wind and rain. We quickly began to pack
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rain really started to pick up. And with one huge gust of wind our tent along
with the OSA’s tent were picked up and blown several feet away. Since the storm
had no intention of stopping, all we could do was stand on the porch, soaking
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UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-29891256842265196242012-08-07T06:42:00.001-07:002012-11-29T08:58:25.121-08:00Lion King at the Museum!<br />
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zoo? </span><span style="font-family: "Californian FB","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Indeed, City Park used to have a zoo,
City Park Zoo. Not much is known about the zoo, but it did have a variety of
animals: chickens, monkeys, rabbits, raccoons, bears, and of course, the
lions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A young girl who frequented the
zoo in the 1930’s remembered taking old bread to feed the animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With her back turned to the lion cage, she
remembered one lion lunging at the bars, rattling the cage, and scaring her
group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also remembered that if she
left the windows open in her house on a summer night, she could hear the lions
roaring in the distance – not something you hear every day in the city or in
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<span style="font-family: "Californian FB","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 36.0pt;"> In the 1920’s Harry Bremer, Iowa City
resident, brought two lions to the United States from Africa. </span><span style="font-family: "Californian FB","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For a short time, Mr. Bremer actually
kept the lions in the carriage house on his property at 1036 Woodlawn Avenue,
less than 1 mile away from Macbride Hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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are metal posts in the ground where the pair were likely chained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later, Mr. Bremer donated the lions to the
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to the lions? The male lion unfortunately died in the extremely hot weather of
July 1931.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was only 2 ½ years
old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This explains why he does not yet
have a full mane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After his death, the
male lion was brought to the Museum of Natural History. The female lion lived
in the City Park Zoo well beyond the death of her companion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She died in February of 1939 and was then
donated to the Museum of Natural History where she was reunited with her
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two lions are a huge part of the museum’s history, as well as the history of
Iowa City and its residents. In celebrating this history, the museum is hosting
a free program for children and families on Saturday August 11<sup>th</sup>
from 5pm-8pm. </span><span style="font-family: "Californian FB","serif";">Families
can lead an African expedition through the museum, tell jokes with our hyena,
and make lion crafts! Following the program, the Summer of the Arts Free Movies
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<span style="font-family: "Californian FB","serif";">In addition
to the museum’s program, the Johnson County Historical Society and Hills Bank are
hosting a Barn Tour on Saturday August 11<sup>th</sup>. The group will be
exploring urban barns in Iowa City including the barn were the lions once lived.
These barns were either built in the city as a carriage house/barn or have
become absorbed by the city as it has expanded. Pre-registration is required.
Visit the Johnson County Historical Society’s website for more information - </span><a href="http://www.johnsoncountyhistory.org/"><span style="font-family: "Californian FB","serif";">http://www.johnsoncountyhistory.org/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Californian FB","serif";"> </span><br />
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This week celebrates Thomas Macbride’s 164<sup>th</sup>
birthday! For you frequent museum goers you might recognize his last name. Like
many influential professors and researchers in the UI’s history, Macbride Hall
was named in honor of Thomas Macbride in 1934. The building was originally
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July 31<sup>st</sup> is a day of celebration and remembrance
of Thomas Macbride. He was a highly accomplished individual. He joined the
University of Iowa in 1878, and in five years began teaching botany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He became the head of the Department of
Botany in 1902. He had a huge love and passion for the outdoors and its
preservation. He is known as the father of Iowa conservation for his role in
forming the state park system (Lake Macbride State Park was also named after
Thomas Macbride for his continual dedication to botany and The University of
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UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-37834243817499538562012-07-24T07:32:00.002-07:002012-11-29T08:58:51.916-08:00National Park and Recreation Month<br />
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July is the perfect time for outdoor exploration (well, if
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designated July as National Recreation and Parks Month. July is the best time
for friends, family, or groups to rediscover their local parks or visit news
ones. Monday was a beautiful (but hot) day, but that did not stop the Education
staff at the Museum of Natural History from visiting the Devonian Fossil Gorge
in Coralville. This trip was full of discovery and new adventures! For some
people this was their first trip to the Devonian Fossil Gorge. If you haven’t
visited the Gorge, I would highly recommend you take an afternoon adventure or
a family outing to this wonderful area, especially if you like learning about
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This holiday isn’t only about outdoor exploration, but also
about recognizing and acknowledging those who work in the parks. The men and
women working or volunteering in the parks make our experience entertaining and
memorable. Like any place whether it’s a museum or park, it takes a lot of care
and effort to make it a beautiful and enjoyable place for families and friends
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And don’t forget about your furry friends! They love outdoor
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Trowbridge Hall is home to the University of Iowa’s widely
recognized Geoscience Department and the Iowa Geological and Water Survey, yet
it also houses a little-known collection that is on display in its very halls.
Within this historic building resides a collection of both hard-to-find and
familiar minerals from around the state and around the world and whose
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One example is this
specimen of selenite found in Oklahoma. Selenite, otherwise known as Gypsum
(CaSO<sub>4</sub>*<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>O), is a common sulfate evaporate
mineral found in warm, arid regions. Gypsum is typically clear to white in
color but can sometimes come in brown tabular shapes as show in the specimen to
the right. Gypsum is also a very soft mineral often used in plaster and cement,
but another form, referred to as “alabaster,” is used in stone and monument
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which is only common in certain areas with low-temperature hydrothermal
activity. Realgar can appear to be blood-red with prismatic crystals, but once
exposed to sunlight and weathering, begins to change to the typical yellow and
granular structure associated with sulfur deposits. This substance was once
used in early fireworks manufacturing in China to produce the brilliant white
colors that are now produced by many powdered metals such as magnesium. Realgar
was also used by the ancient Greeks and Romans as a type of rat poison and red
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Heulandite is a silicate mineral with a lot going on. The
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The mineral above is an interesting specimen with a long
history and a dangerous side. Cinnabar is a mercury sulfide (HgS) with a
beautiful red to purple color and a rhombohedral to tabular shape typically
crystallizing in areas of lower temperatures around volcanic hot springs
alongside opal. As many now know, mercury is a very sever hazard to humans and
animals, and cinnabar is a common mineral ore for mercury, yet people in
ancient China did not realize this information. In the Taoist tradition,
priests would create mixtures with cinnabar to provide to emperors and elite
leaders in order to prolong their life; however, we now know that cinnabar has
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These minerals mentioned here, and many other illustrious
specimens, can be seen on display in the hallways of Trowbridge Hall on the
University of Iowa campus. Please contact the Museum of Natural History with
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Let’s rock! The students began their 500 million year adventure by visiting Trowbridge Hall. In the halls of Trowbridge, the UI Paleontology Repository has a variety of rocks and minerals on display (these displays are free and open to the public). To understand what is a mineral, students picked their favorite mineral to draw and describe. Outside of Trowbridge Hall, the students visited the rock garden to discuss the rock cycle and the many different types of rocks. </div>
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MNH’s Education Department developed discovery trunks for the Devonian period, Pennsylvanian period, and Quaternary period. The students explored these trunks to learn more about these time periods. Each trunk is equipped with fossils, fossil replicas, lesson plans, rock, rock/mineral kits, and books (for all reading levels). Each trunk contains different items depending on the time period covered within. (For more information about the Discovery Trunks, please email <a href="mailto:uimnh@uiowa.edu"><span style="color: windowtext;">uimnh@uiowa.edu</span></a> or call 319.335.0606.) The students had an exceptionally fun time playing a Fossilization Game from the trunk. In the game, students are given chances to travel <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from life to death to fossilization and discovery. </div>
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Throughout the two weeks, the students visited the UI Paleontology Repository, Office of the State Archaeologist and the UI Museum of Natural History laboratories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The UI Paleontology Repository comprises over a million fossils from invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossils. The students were able to explore millions of years of natural history on their tour through the Repository. During their adventure at the Office of the State Archaeologist, they experienced playing with Native American games, such as throwing atlatls. With recent mammoth excavations happening at the UI Museum of Natural History, the students learned how to clean and catalogue mammoth bones. </div>
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</span>-Written by MNH Education Staffer Lee FalkenaUI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-21450146927511451142012-06-26T08:36:00.001-07:002012-11-29T09:00:46.766-08:00Meteor Watch Day<span style="font-family: "Californian FB", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Meteor Watch Day</span><span style="font-family: "Californian FB", "serif";">, a time to look to the skies for meteor showers. Will you be lucky enough to see meteors streaking across the night sky? We sure hope so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Californian FB", "serif";">Meteors are space dust and ice that enter the earth's atmosphere. Meteors can be as small as specks of dust. As they enter the atmosphere at high speeds, they burn up, producing light as they streak across the night sky. Sometimes, you see them streak across the sky and disappear at the horizon. Other times, they end suddenly, burning out right before your eyes. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Californian FB", "serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If you are not able to see a meteor on Saturday, stop by the museum and check out our meteorite on display. This meteorite is about 4.5 billion years old! It fell near Amana in 1865. And remember to keep an eye out for upcoming meteors! </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Californian FB", "serif";">Upcoming Meteors to watch:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Californian FB;">Saturday June 23 – Hog Wild Days parade in Hiawatha at 10am</span></div>
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UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-49622684631365765542012-06-12T08:46:00.000-07:002012-11-29T09:01:09.983-08:00Celebrate Iowa’s Museums!<span style="font-family: Californian FB;">Do you know that Iowa has over 300 museums?! Iowa’s museums include <em><span style="font-family: "Californian FB", "serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">art, history, natural history and specialty museums, science centers, zoos, aquariums, botanic gardens, arboretums, nature centers, historic sites and similar institutions.</span></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Californian FB;">On Thursday, June 7th Governor Terry Branstad proclaimed June 11-17, 2012 as Iowa Museum Week. During this week, Iowa Museums will raise awareness of their programs and celebrate what makes them unique community assets. Iowa’s museums are important community assets, attracting visitors to area hotels, restaurants, and recreational areas; providing education and outreach for all ages; driving both incoming tourism revenue and job creation; and contributing to the overall quality of life that makes Iowa’s communities great places to live, work, and raise a family. According to the </span><a href="http://www.aam-us.org/aboutmuseums/abc.cfm"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Californian FB;">American Association of Museums</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Californian FB;">, museums average approximately 865 million visits per year or 2.3 million visits per day. That’s a lot of museum visits! It doesn’t hurt that there are museums in every state. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Californian FB;">Museums are great places to explore, learn and spend time with family and friends. You really never know what you will find in a museum! The best way to find out is to explore. Throughout this week, visit some museums close to you to find out the wonders that are waiting behind their doors. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Californian FB;">To celebrate Iowa Museum Week, the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History is hosting a special family night on Thursday June 14<sup>th</sup> from 4pm-7pm in Iowa Hall. Families can paint a cast of an animal footprint to take home and enjoy! This activity is free and open to the public. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Californian FB;">Show you care about Iowa’s museum not only this week, but everyday!</span></div>
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-Written by Assistant Education Coordinator Ashlee Gloede</div>
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UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-8340247183678325882012-06-05T07:58:00.000-07:002012-11-29T09:01:24.702-08:00Iowa City Children's Day<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Californian FB;">Children’s Day was one of many exciting events happening during the 2012 Iowa Arts Festival. Children’s Days is a free event produced by the Iowa City Public Library with help from a variety of local organizations. Children’s Day featured activities and entertainment geared toward children. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjugzSWhS3QU9mkOS8dc79G6UH__C6Plf1S3F5tpckGg1o46WbvRgyRcMVcAsG_nCl4Ir0ZIrGnA5yfUATDpigjts4_vEm3uGuGxKXhUZhpILjF77egCpPtN9iGTsHpzYyxbQujjQyaAHE/s1600/IMG_6085.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" fba="true" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjugzSWhS3QU9mkOS8dc79G6UH__C6Plf1S3F5tpckGg1o46WbvRgyRcMVcAsG_nCl4Ir0ZIrGnA5yfUATDpigjts4_vEm3uGuGxKXhUZhpILjF77egCpPtN9iGTsHpzYyxbQujjQyaAHE/s200/IMG_6085.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Californian FB;">The UI Museum of Natural was one of many organizations that took part in this event. The museum has been involved with Children’s Day for the past several years. What child does not like to play with fossils or dig?! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our booth involved both of these aspects. We had a large dig box that children dug in to find fossils from a variety of animals, such as the giant ground sloth, bison, cows, and other animals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Californian FB;">We also had a hands-on table filled with fossils from Devonian period to the present. Children and adults were able to touch and discuss these million year old fossils. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Californian FB;">Alex Woods from the Office of the State Archaeologist demonstrated to families how to flint knap. What is flint knapping? It is the making of chipped stone tools. This technology was used in historic times to manufacture gun flints and in prehistoric times to make spear and dart points, arrow heads, knives, scrapers, blades, gravers, perforators, and many other tools. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Californian FB;">Flat Rusty even got to get his hands dirty looking for fossils! We had a wonderful time at this year’s Children’s Day. It is always great to see all the children and families come out to such a fun event. To learn more about Summer of the Arts events later this summer check out their website at: <a href="http://www.summerofthearts.org/summer-of-the-arts/home.aspx">http://www.summerofthearts.org/summer-of-the-arts/home.aspx</a></span><br />
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UI Museum of Natural Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168878741391452384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369542901183766990.post-2478755421130907502012-05-29T06:24:00.003-07:002012-11-29T09:01:35.698-08:00Tours at MNH<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Californian FB;">“Welcome to the Museum of Natural History! Today we are going to explore many millions of years of Iowa’s natural history, so sit back and hold on as we hop in our time machine. In our journey to the past, we will see many different types of plants and animals; some you may be familiar with and some that still exist today!”</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Californian FB;">Throughout each tour, whether you in the gift shop or wandering through the gallery, you can hear the “AWWW’s!” and “WHOO’s!” from all the students as they visit each exhibit, especially when they see Dunky, the Dunkleosteus from the Devonian, and Rusty, the Giant Ground Sloth from the Ice Age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Californian FB;">Each year, hundreds of organizations – school groups, church groups, community groups, or small families – from throughout Iowa get a guided tour of our main gallery, Iowa Hall. During this fiscal year (July 2012-June 2013), we’ve currently had over 7300 people, preschoolers to UI students to adults, receive a tour this year. Our furthest group came from Texas! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Californian FB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are interested in scheduling a tour, please contact the museum’s Education Department at </span><a href="mailto:uimnh@uiowa.edu"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Californian FB;">uimnh@uiowa.edu</span></a><span style="font-family: Californian FB;"> or call 319-335-0606. Guided tours are available Tuesday through Sunday with a prior reservation. Tours focus on the exhibits in Iowa Hall, and tours of the Bird and Mammal Galleries are mostly self-guided by the groups. All tours are free. The Museum requests that you call to schedule your tour at least a week before the desired date. March, April, and May tour spots fill up very early!</span></div>
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