44 Kansas Academy of Science. 



— Eugene Smyth and Judah Drisco. (Kan. Ac. Sci., vol. XX, part 

 I, p. 155.) 



23. In 1905 Doctor Snow spent a month at Brownsville, Tex., 

 and was assisted by Mr. Tucker and an undergraduate student, and 

 Mr. E. G. Corwine. (Kan. Ac. Sci., vol. XX, part I, p. 136.) 



24. Later in the summer of 1905, Doctor Snow and three stu- 

 dent assistants, Messrs. Eugene Smyth, Ebb Crumb and RoUin 

 Perkins, spent five weeks at San Bernardino ranch, on Sycamore 

 creek, Cochise county, Arizona. (Kan. Ac. Sci., vol. XX, part J, 

 p. 155.) 



25. In 1906 Doctor Snow, assisted by L. A. Adams, a former 

 student and assistant in the department of systematic zoology at 

 the University, S. E. Crumb, and Eugene Smyth, spent June and 

 July in Pima county, Arizona, making a general collection of in- 

 sects. 



26. In 1907 Dr. Snow made his last collecting trip to the Santa 

 Rita mountains, Arizona. He was assisted on this expedition by 

 W. J. Baumgartner, W. R. B. Robertson, and Fred Farragher, of 

 the department of zoology at the University, and Eugene Smyth, 

 of Topeka. 



THE COLLECTIONS. 



The fine insect collections, known now, by recent act of the board 

 of regents of the University, as "The Francis Huntington Snow 

 Entomological Collections," were built up largely from the material 

 secured on these expeditions. Duplicate specimens were exchanged 

 not only with the leading collecting entomologists of the United 

 States but with a number of European collectors. 



After returning from the various expeditions, Doctor Snow would 

 work over the new material collected in his laboratory. Specimens 

 of all species and varieties not found in his cabinets he would care- 

 fully pack in insect-proof boxes and send to specialists for determi- 

 nation. Though he secured several hundred species new to science 

 on his various expeditions, I do not know of his having described 

 and named a single species — finding the specimens and adding 

 them to his fast-growing collections seemed to satisfy his mind. 



As a result of his life's labor, he built up for the University of 

 Kansas one of the largest entomological collections in the United 

 States, and the largest in any educational institution, so far as we 

 know, in the line of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, except those at 

 Harvard College. Some idea of the size of these collections may 

 be obtained from the number of species, varieties and specimens it 

 contains. An inventory has just been completed by Mr. Charles 



