Kansas Dniversity Science Bulletin: 



Vol. IV, No. 8. SEPTEMBER, 1908. i vo"? xiv'!^w t 



BIBLIOGRAPHY, WITH BRIEF HISTORY, OF THE DE- 

 PARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. 



BY C. E. McCLUNG. 

 (Contribution from the Zoological Laboratory, No. 17D.) 



THE history of a department in an educational institutioh 

 may be likened in many ways to the history of a race of 

 organisms. It is usually a more or less generalized or- 

 ganization in the beginning, and only after a time reaches the 

 precision and specialization that is characteristic of a well- 

 planned and directed department. Like organic groups, also, 

 it may undergo a degree of specialization that the environment 

 will not support, and, like them, be obliged to suffer in conse- 

 quence. The department of zoology at the University of Kan- 

 sas is no exception to this rule, and its history is a record of 

 successive adaptations to circumstances with consequent di- 

 versity and specialization. 



In an endeavor to catalogue and arrange the publications of 

 the department the writer has been obliged to investigate thie 

 various stages in the development of this part of the Univer- 

 sity, and, as a result, has come to the conclusion that it would 

 be both desirable and proper to put on record the facts thus dis- 

 covered. It is especially appropriate that this be done, since 

 the man who is responsible for the founding of the departmexLt 

 has played so large a part in the life of the school from its very 

 beginning up to the present time, and has thereby impressed ^ 

 strongly scientific cast upon it. Doctor Snow, by his devotion to 

 biology, has succeeded in placing the University of Kansas wdl 

 up in the ranks of scientific schools, especially on the museuin 

 side. It is due him, therefore, that his connection with the da^- 

 partment be recorded in detail.* 



* It is a matter of great regret to the writer that this slight public appreciation of Doctor 

 Snow should not have appeared during his liff time: but even as the printer's proof was under- 

 going revision there came the news of his death, September 20, 1906. ' I 



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