The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-09-10
ENTHUSIASTIC ENTOMOLOGIST.
DR.. Snow Talks About the Queer
Bugs he Captured During His
Summer Vacation.

every one Of th.m came through
safely" said DR.. Snow, triumphant
ly, today, in his little laboratory il
the University Of Kansas museum; as
he finished unpacking the last box
containing the chronological speci-
mems he had gathered on his collect
ing expedition to Arizona. "Not a
specimen was injured out Of the 49,
900, and they had to be hauled over
a mountainous road of nearly thirty
miles and withstand railroad jour
ney Of nearly 1900 miles,
"It will take me nearly six months
to get all the specimens obtained on
this trip arranged and classified. Some
of those I believe are new to science
will have to be studied carefully for
days to be sure Of this, and probably
will send some Of them to various en-
tomologists Throughout; the. country
who are experts on that particular
genus to get them to pass upon them.
Then I will prepare list Of the spe-
cimens T have for trade and send
them out over the country. Most OF
the bugs Of which we have duplicates
we will trade with the various muse
ums for specimens we do not have
here at the university. For some Of
the more valuable ones, however, l
will set higher price. For example,
for two of those amblyehillas I got
last year "a species Of tiger beetle,)
professor in Berlin gave me l67
specimens Of tiger beetles, Of which
116 We're distinct species, all new to
the collection at the university. Just
before left on my trip I traded 1000
Of nv American bugs for 1000 a Hun
garian collector had gathered from
all parts Of the word. By this trad
inc we increase our collection at the
university much faster than we would
by simply collecting all of our own
specimens. "
The expedition from whish DR..
Snow returned recently is the twenty
sixth he has made in the interests OF
the university collection. Summer
after summerhe has gone to the
mountains with the simplest camp
kit and "roughed it, like the pros
peetor. AS a result Of these. expedl-
tions the University Of Kansas collee-
ton now has 100000 bugs, Of which
more than $4,000 are distinct species.
Several times on these expeditions
DR.. Snow has narrowly escaped death.
In the year 1878 he was bitten by a
rattlesnake while collecting speel-
mems in Western Kansas. Not de-
TERED by this adventure although he
was laid up for several weeks, ne
made a second trip that summer, this
time to Colorado, and large boulder
crashed down the mountainside not
FIVE feet behind him.
A few years later in Colorado DR.
Snow tried a short cut down Grey s
Peak. For several hundred yards eV-
ervthins went we'll, but gradually the
descent became sleeper and sleeper
so that it was with difficulty that he
managed to keep his fect at all. Sud
denly he began sliding and it looked
as if nothing could save him. With
last effort of desperation he jabbed
the handle of his butterfly net into
the snow and ice and held on. This
stopped his sliding, but there he was
on the mountain sids, neither able tt
Get up or down, and only the handle
of butterfly net between him ane
death. With his pocket knife he cu'
toe holes with one hand and held OF
with the other to the butterfly net
Thus he worked his way down thu
mountain. At the foot Of the noun
tain he found a new species Of but
} terfly, which has been named for him
In the summer of 1881 he was col
lecting specimens in Arizona, whel
} the Apache Indians started on tn
warpath. Being warned by a NINE
Of the approach Of the Indians, h
broke camp. Holding his shotgun Il
| one hand and several boxes OF bug
in the other, he made his way dow
the canyon with his party to CAM
5 of miners, where he remained in safe
5 ty until the Indians had passed by. h
had been reported as killed in all tn
) dispatches. Since that time he ha