Memorial Addresses. 37 



Snow entered into the spirit of the occasion at the Science Club "It.'' 

 Here professorial dignity was for the time laid aside, and the 

 members vied with each other in writing, and, sometimes, in acting 

 vigorous burlesques of the formal scientific papers of the year. 



The firm hand-grasp, the hearty greeting and the unselfish help 

 that Doctor Snow gave in all scientific activities will always be 

 missed in Lawrence. 



By J. W. Bekde, Bloomineton. Ind. 



To the minister and teacher is given the privilege of teaching 

 by precept, but to the teaching investigator is given the rare privi- 

 lege of teaching by example. It is this example that inspires the 

 sincere and able student to a life of devotion to the discovery of 

 new truths for the benefit of mankind. To Professor Snow more 

 than to any other p?rsoa we mast look as the father of scientific 

 research in Kansas and the West. In his death it suffers an irrep- 

 arable loss. 



By A. H. Thompson. Topeka. 



I do not deem myself worthy to discuss the topic before us, but 

 cannot refrain from adding my tribute to the memory of our dear 

 friend, from the standpoint of the amateur and the layman. He 

 was, in a special sense, the friend and helper of the amateur, and 

 never tired of giving his time and attention to the uninformed 

 seeker after the truth. I recall with pleasure his many visits to 

 my house, when we would sit far into the small hours, discussing 

 scientific topics, and especially the exciting and weighty questions 

 of evolution and Darwinism, which were occupying the attention 

 of the scientific world. 



But it is of his charming and winsome personality that I wish 

 most to speak. His was a most sweet and winning character, and 

 that was a power with him everywhere. I can easily understand 

 his success in the classroom, for he drew the students to him, as he 

 did every one, and invested the dry facts of science with an inter- 

 est that remained a blessed heritage with them ever afterwards. I 

 well remember the dedication of Snow Hall, which I had the pleas- 

 ure of attending. I remember how the students carried Professor 

 Snow on their shoulders to the hall and back, and how he enjoyed 

 it as much as any of the boys. Prof. F. D. Cope, the brilliant 

 paleontologist of Philadelphia, gave the address, and we went to 

 dine at Professor Snow's with him and spent a never-to-be-forgot- 

 ten day. 



The cause of science and of the Academy owes more to Profes- 



