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R         Shepard, Edward Martin, 1854-1934.

1184                Lantern slides, n.d.

                                    Forty-one slides.

 

 

 

These are lantern slides showing springs, natural bridges, and caves in the Ozarks region of Missouri.  They were produced for teaching purposes by Edward M. Shepard, a professor of geol­ogy at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri.

 

Edward Martin Shepard was a native of West Winsted, Connecticut.  After attending pri­vate schools in Connecticut, he studied biology and geology at the General Russell Collegiate and Military Institute at New Haven, Williams College, and Peabody Academy of Science.  He re­ceived degrees from Williams College, and was awarded the Doctor of Science from Waynesburg, Kentucky, in 1881 for a thesis on the geology of Greene and adjacent counties in Missouri, pub­lished by the Missouri Geological Survey.  Shepard was botanist and mineralogist for the Wil­liams College Rocky Mountain expedition, arranged the natural history museum at Roanoke Col­lege, and worked on special assignments for the Smithsonian Institution and the Illinois Geologi­cal Survey.

 

Shepard spent much of his active career as Professor of Biology and Geology at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri.  Shepard arrived in the fall of 1878 and taught at Drury until his retirement due to ill health in 1908.  He was associated with the Carnegie Foundation after his re­tirement from teaching.

 

The lantern slide collection was produced for use in Shepard’s classes at Drury.  This se­lection consists entirely of Missouri scenes showing features of karst topography such as springs (particularly ebb and flow springs), natural bridges, and caves.  Most are of geological features in the Ozarks, especially those in Carter, Christian, Oregon, and Shannon counties, but an image of Big Salt Spring in Saline County is also included.

 

This collection supplements the Edward Martin Shepard papers (C164) at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia.   

 

 

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