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museum and emeritus professor of natural history that he died on 

 September 20, 1908, aged sixty-eight years. 



There is no space here to enumerate ever so compactly or fleetingly 

 the special activities and successes of Professor Snow's career. He- 

 Avas the pioneer naturalist of Kansas, and for thirty years its most 

 conspicuous representative in meteorology, botany, ornithology and 

 entomology. Distinctly an old-time "naturalist," student of Nature- 

 in the field as contrasted with the newer type of laboratory "biolo- 

 gist," Professor Snow was at the same time a teacher and personal 

 help and inspiration to students of a type only too rarely known ia 

 university circles. His love of birds and flowers and insects never 

 obscured or overcame his love of his students. His enthusiasm and 

 energy were contagious. He made first-class men out of the best of 

 us, and something at least worth while out of the worst of us. The 

 roll of "formerly of Kansas" men who are teaching and investigat- 

 ing in lines of natural history is a long one, and the list of Snow's. 

 students is a large part of it. 



Dr. Snow's personal contributions to science are chiefly systematic,, 

 faunistic and economic. The gathering together and care of the re- 

 markably large and rich collections of the University of Kansas are- 

 not to be reckoned as the least of these contributions. For though, 

 the effective aid of Dyche, Williston and others has been an indis- 

 pensable part of the building up of these really notable collections, 

 Snow was through it all a guiding, driving and inspiring spirit. For 

 many years his was the sole activity. These collections now housed 

 in a splendid special museum building are an abiding tangible evi- 

 dence of Dr. Snow's capacity and enthusiasm. 



The most conspicuous period of Professor Snow's entomological 

 career was that of the early '90s when, under his control, Kansas?- 

 tried on a large scale, with special appropriations from the Legisla- 

 ture, the artiflcial introduction of epidemic diseases among the chinch- 

 bugs of her great wheat and corn flelds. Our laboratories and offices 

 were overrun by the hundreds of thousands of little black and white 

 malodorous pests which were being sent in and out by daily scores 

 of mail packages. The work and its results have been variously 

 judged. We may admit at once certain mistakes in interpretation 

 of results and certain failures in method. But all these concessions; 

 to just criticism do not cancel the positive results of benefit which 

 certainly came through the wholesale spreading of fungous diseases 

 that would otherwise have remained much more restricted in their 

 range and effectiveness. With these immediate positive benefits, too, 

 came the more indirect but perhaps larger one of the awakened in- 



