4 KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



1866. — Frank H. Snow, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. 

 In the senior year of the college instruction was given in zoology, 

 and the principal branch of the subject treated was the insect fauna 

 of the state. 



This course was continued until 1886, when there began to be 

 given special courses devoted exclusively to the subject of ento- 

 mology. 



1867. — Doctor Snow relinquishes mathematics and becomes professor of 

 natural history. 



1872. — Dr. F. H. Snow, of the University, was appointed chairman of 

 the entomological commission of the Kansas Academy of Science, 

 and was continued in this position for many years. 



1874. — Doctor Snow begins publication of entomological papers in 

 Transactions of Kansas Academy of Science. 



1875. — An account of the Rocky Mountain locust, published in the 

 Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. The same year 

 Doctor Snow published a paper on a moth of economic importance, in 

 the same Transactions. Another paper of this same year, which 

 clearly shows the scope of the departmental work, is "The best 

 means of defense against the insect enemies of the horticulturist," 

 also published in the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of 

 Science. 



Mr. George F. Gaumer, an assistant, issued a publication on the 

 lai^ae of certain insects. 



1876. — A publication by Doctor Snow from the University, entitled 

 "List of Coleoptera collected in Colorado." — Trans. Kan. Acad. Sci. 

 Another paper, which dealt largely with the relation of birds 

 and insects to agriculture, was issued this same year. 



1877. — A publication appeared in the Transactions of Kansas Academy 

 of Science, giving a list of the insects of Wallace county, Kansas. 

 Two other papers the same year in the Transactions of the Kansas 

 Academy of Science gave an account of a large tiger beetle of un- 

 usual scientific importance. 



1880. — Appears a discussion by Doctor Snow on the webworm. 



1882. — An account of the house fly is published in Psyche, III. 



1883. — Was a year of unusual activity among injurious insects, and we 

 find four papers of rather wide scope, on three noxious insects; on 

 three injurious insects; on the habits of the screw worm; and on 

 how to destroy these injurious insects. These were published in 

 the first and second reports of the Kansas State Board of Agri- 

 culture and in Psyche. 



1884. — We find another year of activity, as is shown by the publications 

 in the reports of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, on insects 

 injurious to wheat and on the value of several insecticides. 



1885. — This was an even more active year among insects injurious to 

 crops. At this time there appeared in the Kansas State Board of 



