Excerpt from The Iowa Alumnus: Alumni Register Number, 1847-1911 Previous to the present attempt, there have been four pub lications issued which contain the names of graduates of The State University of Iowa. Ln 1877 the University published a Catalogue of Officers and Alumni of the State University of Iowa, 1847 Eight years later, it issued a pamphlet of Officers and Alumni of the State University of Iowa, 1847 1885, and undergraduate students. In J une, 1887, the Alumni Association of the University ordered printed a Directory of the Alumni Association. The book was issued that same year. There seem to have been no further attempts until the Statis tics Committee of the Alumni Association set to work in 1902 and 1903 to gather information relative to the location and work of Alumni. With University aid in publishing, an Alumni Register was issued in 1904. The present volume is the result of an act passed by the Board of Regents in the spring of 1909, when $800 was appropriated for the purpose of compiling and publishing an Alumni Register - the work to be done in the office of the Alumni Bureau of Information. Bearing in mind these more or less sporadic attempts, it is not surprising that when the Alumni Secretary began the pres ent undertaking, records were found to be in a dilapidated con dition. The fires that destroyed Old South Hall, the Medical Building, and the University Library, swept away much valu able material. Information concerning Alumni was more or less meager as no systematic plan for keeping in touch with graduates had ever been provided. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.