220 KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



The University catalogue of the year 1866, in the faculty 

 list, shows the name of Frank H. Snow with the title of Pro- 

 fessor of Mathematics and Natural Science, but in the follow- 

 ing year mathematics does not appear as a part of his official 

 designation. The first step in specialization was thus early 

 taken. No further advance was made, however, until 1899, 

 when biology was made his main work, as appears from the 

 title. Professor of Botany, Entomology, and Meteorology. The 

 professorship in zoology at this time descended to Lewis Lind- 

 say Dyche, whase connection with the department of natural 

 history began during his junior college year, when he is re- 

 corded, in the catalogue of 1882, as Instructor in Natural His- 

 tory. In 1886 he became Assistant in Natural History, in 1888 



. Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, and in 1899 Professor 



,of Zoology. 



\, During the twenty-four years of his incumbency as Professor 

 iof Natural History Doctor Snow gave all the instruction in the 

 general subjects of botany, zoology, and geology, and in the 

 special branches of meteorology and entomology. Emphasis 



'was laid upon individual work by the student, and in the cata- 

 logue of 1878 it is stated ". . . the chief end to be accom- 

 plished is the cultivation of the faculties of observation and 

 comparison." From the beginning, however, his strong inter- 

 est lay in the development of a museum, and as early as the 

 year 1869 there appears in the catalogue an acknowledgment 

  ^ of the gift of 600 plants, 500 insects, and 50 fish and reptiles by 



JFrank H. Snow. In subsequent catalogues there are always 

 records of the numbers of specimens in the museum. Begin- 



. ning in 1875 with 30,000, the increase is steady, with an addi- 

 tion of about 10,000 annually, until 100,000 is reached in 1882. 



tThe 150,000 mark was passed in 1887, and this remains as the 



-'record at the end of Doctor Snow's active teaching period, when 

 he became Chancellor of the University in 1890. 



'~ Upon the division of the work in the department of natural 

 liistory in 1889, Doctor Snow had associated with him W. C. 



"Stevens as Assistant in Natural History and V. L. Kellogg as 

 nated as Director of the Museum, and this title appears after 



' Assistant in Entomology. At this time he was officially desig- 

 his name until the catalogue of 1895. The same personnel was 

 maintained in the department until 1894, when W. A. Snow, the 

 elder son of Doctor Snow, took the place of V. L. Kellogg, and 

 Hugo Kahl became Museum Assistant in Entomology. In 



