Memorial Addresses. 27 



where an enemy that would not down at his bidding. It was a 

 terrific struggle. On the 21st of September, 1908, the end came, 

 and a great soul went across "the bar." His wife, Mrs. Jane 

 Appleton Snow, to whom he was married in 1868, one son and 

 three daughters survive him. 



Doctor Snow was one of the seventeen men who organized the 

 Kansas Academy of Science, in 1868, and he continued to be an 

 active member all his life. He published in the Transactions of 

 the Kansas Academy over 100 scientific articles. He wrote for 

 other scientific journals and magazines, among them the American 

 Naturalist, Science, Transactions of the Kansas Historical Society, 

 Kansas Educational Journal, Bulletin Nuttali Ornithological Club, 

 and Kansas Science Bulletin. 



The trend of Doctor Snow's mind and tastes was along the lines 

 of natural science. Nature was to him an open book, which he 

 read with ever-increasing interest. He was a crowned prince in 

 the realm of nature. 



Doctor Snow was a member of many scientific societies. He 

 corresponded with men of science in other lands, and was recog- 

 nized as a scientist of high rank. His praise was upon the lips of 

 men everywhere. Only a little while ago, a widely celebrated man 

 remarked of Doctor Snow: "What a grand, glorious, wonderful 

 man he is." Snow Hall was named in his honor. The Spooner 

 Library building was erected out of funds left to the University by 

 his uncle, W. B. Spooner, of Boston. The bequest was made be- 

 cause Doctor Snow was in the Kansas University. He saved to the 

 state of Kansas hundreds of thousands of dollars by his discovery 

 of the chinch-bug fungus. The collections that he made from 

 year to year, now in the museum of natural history, have a monetary 

 value of not less than a hundred thousand dollars. Truly, the 

 state of Kansas is a debtor to this her first scientist. 



Dr. Snow lived a blameless life, at peace with all mankind, 

 happy in his family relations, a true Christian — loving God and 

 loving man. He was an earnest, zealous student, a profound 

 scholar, a seeker after truth in the laboratory, in the fields and in. 

 the air. In his official character as professor or as chancellor he 

 was a fair and square man, and no respecter of persons. He loved 

 his country and was willing to die for her. He loved Kansas, to 

 which he gave all that he had. 



He was more largely instrumental than any other man in the 

 upbuilding of the University of Kansas. For forty-two years he 

 watched over its growth and in many ways directed its progress. 



