Well, the time has come, June is here! This means that the Exploring Minnesota’s Natural History grant project has come to an end. The final metadata has been sent to the University Libraries web developers, and the digitized materials from…
We previously shared the story of how the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey started. The Board of Regents, charged by the state legislature to implement the Survey, hired Newton Horace Winchell to lead field explorations and serve as the…
In addition to mandating an exhaustive study of the geological, botanical, and zoological phenomena of the state, the March 1, 1872 law that created the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey under the authority of the Board of Regents of…