448 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec., ’08 
head of the school. After some months’ rest he returned to 
his old school work and for five years was happily engaged in 
the scholarly pursuits which he so much loved. But the old 
injury to his health was too severe to be overcome and again 
he was forced to relinquish his work. For ten weary months 
he fought a good fight, but at last on September 20 was forced 
to yield—and so passed away. 
Such, in brief, is the history of Dr. Francis Huntington 
Snow’s connection with the University of Kansas. What he 
accomplished for science during this time is known, at least 
in part, to most entomologists. As an enduring monument to 
his devotion there is now in the museum of his school one of 
the largest and most complete collections of insects in this 
country. Most of this is the result of his own personal efforts, 
the extent of which may be judged by the fact that he led 
twenty-six expeditions into the field. Some idea of the com- 
pleteness and value of the collections may be gained by noting 
that the number of type specimens is about 1,500. The largest 
number of types is found among the diptera where there are 
1,026. The coleoptera and lepidoptera are well represented, the 
former having 11,000 species, and the latter 4,800 species, and 
114 types. There are altogether about 250,000 specimens distri- 
buted among 21,000 species. | 
These collections represent what came to be Dr. Snow’s chief 
scientific interest, but during the many years when he had more 
or less of the entire science work of the school in charge, he 
promoted and encouraged the formation of museum exhibits 
in general zoology, paleontology, botany and mineralogy. Much 
of the strong scientific bias of the school is due to his personal 
interest in these branches of learning which, strangely enough, 
claimed his attention only after he had been obliged to re- 
linquish his early ambition to teach Greek. Scarcely second 
to his entomological bent was his leaning toward ornithology. 
In 1872 he published the first check list of Kansas birds to 
which he added from year to year until in 1903 he published 
the fifth and last revision. 
Not content with the purely scientific aspect of his work he 
