Kansas Academy of Science

[1] It was created as the Kansas Natural History Society at a meeting at Lincoln College (now Washburn University) in Topeka.

The legislature placed the academy under the state department of agriculture and charged them with the creation of a science library and the collection of scientific specimens.

That management regime ended up less than satisfactory, and in 1922 the legislature ordered the academy's library to be moved from Topeka to the University of Kansas at Lawrence.

At this point, the academy had, for several years, lacked funds to bind their journals, and the collection was not being kept up.

Over the next couple of years, the remaining specimens were dispersed, and the museum ceased to exist.