Show THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF UTAH it has bee been well said that the civilization and prosperity of a country depend upon the amount of knowledge possessed and the extent to which this knowledge in ig diffused amone the people the modern era Is i very largely chat char motorized by this thirst fur for the th accumulation and the diffusion of knowledge the result to is that never before were ware euch rapid and so many strides made to wrest the secrets secrete of nature from her bar for the use and edification of at man the great number of tur lur schools col lages und and ties and the achieve wants menta of our investigators investors and manufacturers show abow that america to la abreast ol of the times la Is this thia age in almost every state in connection with the be colleges aud and the universities men are organizing them hem pelves into societies that their re s may be the more effective in fit the ibe collection the distribution end and the utilization of the facts obtained the people of utah to some extent have caught the spirit of the timed and veay few thinie can show their progress more than the interest they take in education besides her public schools tile the lost last few years have wit need the tb formation of socie tivis and lations for educational optional purposes come of 04 anesi organized some years ago go remain with us while some have hare become disorganized and died out one of the latter was the scientific go 80 coety of at utah formed about 1885 this society wax was composed principally of such men as dr john R park arof cot J B toronto prof J T rings bury prof orson oraon howard prot prof J H paul prof J E clay boyton Joy ton prof marcus JE jones and prof Hirsoh hirsching Hir ing the meetings were hold held yearly and in them a number of valuable original papers pa pen were read the society died out several years after its organization stion the bait lake literary and scientific flo asso elation olat elat loa IOD the corporation owning the deseret museum still continues in 1894 the utah forestry aioo known as the natural history society of utah was organized and it is doing good work at the present time in the beginning of 1895 toe the utah society was organized mainly through the efforts of drs talmage wilcox and whiting this society is now flourishing and its members number some of the leading edu orators physicians and nion mea of prominence in the territory on saturday april 6 1895 another Imo association clation known as the natural JEll history story society of utah was wan organized organic id asias ite field of observation and research shall ball comprise geology mineralogy archaeology archeology arche arob and biology in all their brazones branches bra bran nones cues its ita members shall use all reasonable influence to have proper laws 0 enacted to protect all injurious forms arms 0 of t life in utah as well as an archea ologio al 1 treasures and to secure the observance vanoe of such laws as are or may be passed tor for such purpose its head bead aclus iuar arters tr snail be the university ot of utah and all of its collections shall elerbe ever be forthe for the us use e of the university under ruch conditions as may be mutually agreed upon by the executive anim committee atee a 0 the society and the proper U university diversity authorities any resi resident deat of utah interested in natural history may become a member of this sOc society tOtY 21 thus far very little oriel orla nal inal research resea reb work has ban been done in utah by utah people the results of which have been published abod and sent to washington nearly y all the work of the kind man mentioned has been done by men sent out here from washington and other places by the government the mining and the railroad companies those men have collected many facts and many malay rue fine relies relics and specimens too illustrating the resources natural history sidd and ancient peoples of our territory slid and sent them away to the smithsonian institute the he national at washington and to other museums of the east when one wanted to study and examine any of these fields of natural history and the specimens to be found in our territory he had to go 90 to toe the museums of eastern america and aed europe and to the reports arte rte issued by the government V until antil within one and a hl y years demirs emirs I 1 in n order to see utah mummies and the remains of the cliff dwellers and the mound bull buil ow rs we bad to go the institute and the museum of harvard university true the authorities of 0 the be university bad the deseret museum have done what little they could to collect and preserve these relios and have hare been in a measure suc but the work to li hardly begun the field is ic open but has haa been an ai yet only glanced at it now remains remaina to be worked studied audie dand and utilized these Thea theadare eare are the objects of the natural history society of utah those present at the first meeting ol of the society were on drie I 1 almage und and whiting bupt wooten woolen B W ashton andrews andrew of the be high school salt lake city J H lindford of the a Y college logan A vance of brigham city mrs CA C A whiting misses L A strong A E brother hood bood swan nora nom bunion nellie brown W H lyon A borgquist Borgqu lat milton bennion Benn lon W B R calderwood H 8 13 Qan San jere aers E E marks marka W vernon DW moffat J P erskine and W D neal the fullow follow lug ink officers ficera of were elected for onto year Prea Pres luent dr C A whiting Whit inu vice president at large mrs mra C A brotherhood bretler D newl nel treasurer trea aurer miss lj A strong member of 0 executive committee D W |