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his son William, twelve years of age, he went to Arizona. The 

 Apache Indians were on the war-path, killing the whites, carrying 

 off their provisions and clothing, and driving away their horses and 

 cattle. Intense excitement existed at the University when the 

 news came that the party were in imminent peril of their lives. 

 The anxiety was not allayed until a letter from the doctor arrived. 

 He wrote, August 17, as follows : " Last Saturday afternoon our 

 camp was visited by two citizens of Socorro, who made the trip on 

 horseback at the risk of their lives, to inform us that the reds had 

 murdered two men that morning on the road between our camp 

 and town. Two of them were Mexicans who were going in with a 

 load of wood. The loaded wagon stood in the road as we came by 

 yesterday, and the blood of the murdered men stained the ground 

 — not yet dry. Three white men were killed a mile further on. 

 One other escaped to tell the news — the very man who took us out 

 to the mountains on the preceding Monday. We were on guard 

 day and night for three days — the rifle I bought in Boston coming 

 into requisition for another purpose than for hunting venison and 

 smaller game. We had pickets out by night and scouts by day. 

 The Indians, night before last, came up the canon to within a few 

 rods of our picket-guard, as we knew by the prints of their mocca- 

 sins on the freshly wet earth. They were also watching us on 

 Sunday from the top of the canon, about 1500 feet above us." 



In 1906 Doctor Snow captured in Arizona a specimen of the 

 lizard kind known as the Gila monster. It is asserted by some 

 that the bite of this hideous looking animal is sure death; others 

 declare it to be perfectly innocuous. His experience is that "the 

 effects of a Gila monster bite have been much exaggerated." "Of 

 course," said he, "I have not had so much to do with them. The 

 one that I have planted six teeth securely in my thumb, and I suf- 

 fered no ill effects." 



Many other incidents might be related, but the foregoing are 

 enough. 



At the University Doctor Snow's time was taken up in the work 

 of the recitation room, in delivering lectures, in correspondence 

 with men of science in both Europe and America, and in arranging 

 and classifying the thousands of insects, beetles and butterflies 

 that he had collected. On many of his expeditions he made rare 

 finds — some that were entirely new to science, and some to which 

 by common consent his name was attached. 



When Doctor Snow entered upon his administrative duties as 

 the head of the Kansas University he was fifty years old. Robust, 



