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Colorado. This was a new locality, and Professor Snow treated it 

 in his reports to the Academy as a separate expedition. The time 

 was spent collecting insects. It was on this trip that a rock, twice 

 as large as one's head, fell from a high crag and struck on a rail- 

 road rail and smashed itself to pieces, between the writer and Pro- 

 fessor Snow, who were walking tandem only a few feet apart on the 

 rail. (Kan. Ac. Sci., vol. VI, p. 75.) 



5. In 1879 Professor Snow made another trip to Colorado and 

 camped for six weeks near Idaho Springs. He had his family and 

 two student assistants. Miss Annie Mozley and L. L. Dyche, with 

 him on that trip. This expedition secured, among other things, 

 a fine collection of lepidopterous insects, especially catocala moths. 

 (Kan Ac. Sci., Vol. VII, p. 61.) 



6. In 1880 he conducted an expedition to Santa Fe canon, 

 New Mexico. Camp was located eight miles up the canon from 

 Santa Fe. The party was made up of the same individuals as in 

 1879. In four weeks' time 237 species and varieties of Coleoptera — 

 many of them rare and some new to science — as well as many other 

 insects, were secured. (Kan. Ac. Sci., vol. VII, p. 70.) 



7. In 1881 Professor Snow conducted another expedition to 

 New Mexico. The party was made up of Prof. H. H. S. Smith, of 

 the department of physics. Doctor Snow's twelve-year-old son 

 Willie, and L. L. Dyche. The party located its camp in the Mag- 

 dalena mountains, twenty-five miles west of Socorro. After five 

 days' collecting, a band of hostile Apaches passed near our camp 

 and murdered a number of men who were driving freight- wagons 

 over the very road we had traveled a few days before, between our 

 camp and Socorro. The writer, who was out hunting deer that 

 morning, heard* the shooting off to the east in the direction of So- 

 corro, but did not understand what it meant until later in the day, 

 when the news was brought to our camp by a man who escaped 

 from the wagons. He had a bullet-hole in the crown of his hat and 

 bad not discovered it until he reached our camp. After living in 

 apprehension for our lives for three days, we returned to Socorro 

 with a party of about a dozen miners and prospecters. Doctor 

 Snow's party now spent about three weeks collecting in the neigh- 

 borhood of Socorro, one day at Deming, and a week at the old city 

 of Pecos, which concluded the expedition. (Kan. Ac. Sci., vol. 

 VIII, p. 25.) 



8. In 1882 nine weeks were spent near the Las Vegas Hot 

 Springs, New Mexico. The party consisted of Professor Snow, 

 his family, and three students of t"he University — W. W. Russ,' 



