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ting class of that year organized a scientific expedition for "explo- 

 ration in Colorado." Professor Snow was invited to accompany the 

 expedition. During the first week of August the student members 

 of the party returned home. Professor Snow, his wife and son 

 Willie — then about eight years old — remained until September 1. 

 (Kan. Acad. Sci., vol. V, p. 15.) 



2. In 1877 Professor Snow conducted an expedition to Wallace 

 county, Kansas. He spent three weeks in camp along the Smoky 

 Hill river, about one mile from Fort Wallace. His assistants on 

 that trip were Richard Foster and John M. Walker, students of the 

 University. It was that year that the party collected about 1500 

 specimens of the then rare species of tiger-beetle, Amhlychyla 

 cylindriformis. In 1876, the year previous, these beetles were re- 

 ported to have sold at from five to fifteen dollars for a single ei^eci- 

 men. Doctor Snow's immense catch put the market price down to 

 one dollar, and take your pay in other insect specimens at their 

 listed values. (Kan. Acad. Sci., vol. VI, p. 61.) 



3. In 1878 Professor Snow, and Prof. B. F. Mudge, of the de- 

 partment of geology at the Agricultural College, made an expedi- 

 tion to Gove county, Kansas, for the purpose of collecting fossils 

 from the chalk-beds of that locality. Richard Foster and L. L. 

 Dyche, students at the University, were assistants on that expedi- 

 tion. The expedition spent about a month in Gove county. It 

 was on that trip that Professor Snow was bitten by a rattlesnake. 

 After carrying the snake about camp for some time and convincing 

 himself that it was harmless if treated kindly, one day, about noon- 

 time, he undertook to put the reptile in a jar of alcohol, tail first. 

 He was holding the snake by the neck with not more than an inch 

 of the reptile's head protruding beyond his thumb and finger. 

 However, about the time the snake's tail struck the alcohol the 

 reptile managed to twist its head enough to bite the professor on 

 the finger. The writer immediately tied a piece of shoe-string, the 

 most available string on hand, tightly around the finger, and lanced 

 the bite with a pocket-knife. Another member of the party imme- 

 diately began sucking the finger so as to remove the poison. Eithtr 

 the treatment was very effective or the snake, being a small one, had 

 little poison in its glands, for the professor was not injured, and in 

 less than two hours was out collecting as usual. ( Kan. Ac. Sci , 

 vol. VI, p. 75.) 



4. During the month of August in the same year (1878), Pro- 

 fessor Snow and the students who were with him in Gove county,, 

 Kansas, spent about two weeks at "Dome Rock," Platte canon, 



