President's Address. 27 



Largely while in company with Dr. F. H. Snow, the following 

 collection of insects was made by Eugene Smyth, a young man 

 only nineteen years old : 



Species. Specimens. 



Diptera 80 230 



Hymenoptera 148 380 



Neuroptera 28 90 



Orthoptera 75 215 



Lepidoptera 122 350 



Hemiptera 84 208 



Coleoptera 2,196 17,678 



Totals 2,733 19,151 



Prof. F. B. Isely, of the Wichita high school, has in his collec- 

 tion 127 species of Kansas Orthoptera, as well as quite a number 

 of species representing the other orders of insects. 



But the monumental work of Dr. F. H. Snow, the oldest in 

 membership and the most persistent collector of this Academy, is 

 probably without an equal in the entire western hemisphere, if not 

 in the whole world, when we consider the personal character of this 

 work. Of insects. Doctor Snow reports : 



Species. Specimens. 



Coleoptera 9,060 63,000 



Lepidoptera 3,750 10,000 



Hymenoptera 2,050 10,500 



Diptera 3,340 28,000 



Orthoptera 300 1,500 



Neuroptera 200 1,000 



Hemiptera 500 5,000 



Kansas spiders 55 500 



Myriapods 45 250 



Miscellaneous 200 1,000 



Totals 19,500 120,900 



Collected in 1904-'05 1,500 50,000 



Making a grand total of 21,000 170,900 



The account of Doctor Snow's work as a naturalist is still incom- 

 plete, for, in addition to his collection of insects, should be counted 

 his early work on plants, his collection of meteorites, his list of Kan- 

 sas birds, his accumulation of data bearing on Kansas weather, and 

 his boxes of fossils, that he has been too modest to enumerate. 



It was the hope of the writer to be able to give several other 

 lists of collections made by members of this Academy, but the 

 data* were not received in time for this paper. 



Your speaker's own craze for collecting has led him to load his 

 cabinets with fossils ; and he is very proud of the fact that he has 

 collected fossil invertebrates and vertebrates from Massachusetts 



