The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-21

During the past year DR.. Shows
health has been steadily failing, owing
to advancing age Nervous breakdown
is given as the immediate cause of
death Of the venerable ex-chancellor.
Earlier In the year he spent some time
IN the Bonner Springs sanitarium and
since then he has been in Michigan and
Wisconsin for his health.
During the greater part of this time
Mrs. Snow and daughter Edith have
been constant in attendance to DR..
Snow.
With X. L. for Years.
DIR. F. H. Snow has been connected
with the University Of Kansas from the
entire period Of its history until the
date Of his breakdown. He has not
only gained a reputation as a Kansas
natural scientist, but parts of his work
Is as familiar to scholars in Europe as
to Americans.
What DR.. Snow has accomplished is
perhaps best summed up by Chancellor
Frank Strong. Chancellor Strong said; :
DR.. Snow was one of the original
founders of the University of Kansas.
His death cuts the last link w%h the
first year of the institution. He has
come in contact with every one IF
10000 students that have been at the
university during his time. hence he
has had an opportunity of impressing
himself on large number of educated
When He Was Chancellor.
DIR. Snow was a man of high ideals:
he was noblest in his personal life: as
a scientist he enjoyed a large reputa-
ton, having derived that distinction in
the scientific field before being made
chancellor. He was elected Chancellor
at a very critical time in the history
of the institution. and he is in a large
measure responsible for the growth and
development of the university
he reorganized the institution and
really gave 1t the university caste. The
state OF Kansas therefore owes him a
debt which It can never pay except by
further promoting the growth and in
fiuence of that to which he gave life"
PROFESSOR Ephriam Miller, who was
associated with DR.. Snow in his work
said: With regard to his work in the
university. 1t was mostly along scien-
tinc lines. Especially in the last
twenty-five years, his work was of
immense value to the state and the
university. He was always engaged in
the kind of work that would bring re-
suits. not only to the state but to the
university and to science in general.
Work in Entomology.
He discovered some new species of
insect and his name was given to
some of them. so his name is known
TO the scientific world not only in the
United States but all over the world.
He was man intensely engage in
his work and 1 think his mind was
so occupied with it that it brought on
the disease that caused his death.
DR.. Snow will be remembered b1-
many Kansas farmers as the discover
er of a chinch bug exterminator. 1t
was in the early sos that DIR. Snow
discovered how farmers could rid
themselves of the chinch bugs. From
all parts Of the state the bug were ex-
pressed to DR.. Shows laboratory. He
inoculated the bugs with a serum and
sent them back to their respective
starting places. where they were turn
ed loose in the field. 1t is said that
after these inoculated bugs were let
at large in a field where the pest was
thick It would only be several days be-
fore all the bugs in the field were
killed.
Kansas owes much to Francis II.
Snow, former chancellor of the Uni
varsity of Kansas. who was professor
Il organic evolution, systematic en-
tomology and meteorology. He had
been connected with the university
eight days more than forty-two years.
and through his activities as a scien-
fist, during those years. he gave Kan
eas a name the world round.
AS result of his labors he had col
lected an exhibit of insects. the larg-
est OF any educational institution in
the United States with the exception
of Harvard. 1t is easily worth 500
900. It has cost Kansas in cash out
lay proba bly, $1,000. DR.. Snow discov-