February, 09] .TontXAL of ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 83 



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Obituary 



FRAN'CIS HUNTINGTON SNOW 



The recent death of Dr. Francis H. Snow removes from the ranks 

 of American entomologists a medalled veteran of the service. It was 

 in the '60s that Francis Snow, a boy of twenty-five, went out to 

 Kansas from Massachusetts as professor of mathematics and natural 

 science in the just-established state university at Lawrence. He was 

 one of the three men who formed the entire first faculty of the em- 

 bryo institution. The other two finished their work years ago, but 

 Dr. Snow's call to rest was delayed until he was able to see a won- 

 derful fruition of his labors. 



"With the addition of new men to the faculty Professor Snow was 

 -able from 1870 on to restrict his work to natural history and after 

 1886 to botany and entomology, his chief interest and activity from 

 the first having been devoted to the collection and study of insects. 

 In 1889 in response to the wish of all the people of the state, except- 

 ing himself, he was called to take the presidency of the university. 

 This hea\y load of administrative duty he simply added to his other 

 work because he would not be driven out of his laboratory and mu- 

 seum. The university began under his administration that rapid 

 growth which it has continued up to today. The double burden was 

 suceessfuly sustained by him for eleven or twelve years, but at the 

 ■end of that time, warned by symptoms of bodily rebellion, among 

 which serious insomnia was a conspicuous one. Chancellor Snow gave 

 Taack to the Board of Eegents his charge of the university and de- 

 A^oted himself entirely again to the care and further increase of his 

 great collections. It was as active director of the natural history 



