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head of the school. After some months' rest he returned to 

 his old school work and for five years was happily engaged in 

 the scholarly pursuits which he so much loved. But the old 

 injury to his health was too severe to be overcome and again 

 he was forced to relinquish his work. For ten weary months 

 he fought a good fight, but at last on September 20 was forced 

 to yield and so passed away. 



Such, in brief, is the history of Dr. Francis Huntington 

 Snow's connection with the University of Kansas. What he 

 accomplished for science during this time is known, at least 

 in part, to most entomologists. As an enduring monument to 

 his devotion there is now in the museum of his school one of 

 the largest and most complete collections of insects in this 

 country. Most of this is the result of his own personal efforts, 

 the extent of which may be judged by the fact that he led 

 twenty-six expeditions into the field. Some idea of the com- 

 pleteness and value of the collections may be gained by noting 

 that the number of type specimens is about 1,500. The largest 

 number of types is found among the diptera where there are 

 1,026. The coleoptera and lepidoptera are well represented, the 

 former having 11,000 species, and the latter 4,800 species, and 

 114 types/ There are altogether about 250,000 specimens distri- 

 buted among 21,000 species. 



These collections represent what came to be Dr. Snow's chief 

 scientific interest, but during the many years when he had more 

 or less of the entire science work of the school in charge, he 

 promoted and encouraged the formation of museum exhibits 

 in general zoology, paleontology, botany and mineralogy. Much 

 of the strong scientific bias of the school is due to his personal 

 interest in these branches of learning which, strangely enough, 

 claimed his attention only after he had been obliged to re- 

 linquish his early ambition to teach Greek. Scarcely second 

 to his entomological bent was his leaning toward ornithology. 

 In 1872 he published the first check list of Kansas birds to 

 which he added from year to year until in 1903 he published 

 the fifth and last revision. 



Not content with the purely scientific aspect of his work he 



