The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01
FOR DR.. F. H. SNOW.
Memorial Meeting Held by Academy
of Science.


The forty-first meeting of the Kan
sas Academy of Science was opened by
President E. Hawworth last night in
the supreme court room of the state
mouse. This promises to be the most
interesting and Instructive meeting
ever held by the academy. There will
be three sessions today, morning, af-
| ternoon and night; and two Saturday,
one at a. M, and one at p. m.
The meeting last night was in the
form of memorial to the late DR..
Francis Huntington Snow, one of the
| founders of the academy In the re-
ma1nder of the sessions all of which
will be held in the supreme court
when it will convene for stereopticon
lecture by Prof. Edmonson and a
reception at the Carnegie library at
Washburn, sixty-nine papers covering
of Heat in Cooking" by J. T. Love-
Wen to kansas Coleoptera of the
Families of Co1ydiidae, Cucujidae,
Cryptophagidae Mycetophagidae, Der
Lathridiidae, Trogositidae, Parnidae,
Heteroceridae. Dascyllidae, and Rhip-
iceridae" by w. Knaus.
The next legislature will be asked
for an appropriation sufficient to buy
sectional bookcases for an accumula-
ton of $500 volumns of scientific
works in Kansas, 500 of which are
now being bound in half morocco at
the printery. At present these books
are piled in little back unused Office
room. The academy will also recon-
mend that state library commission
be created to care for all such collec-
lions of the different state organiza-
tions of this character.
The museum likewise is in an I'M
satisfactory condition and quarters.
The academy needs number of tables
for collections and space in which to
arrange them with system The
state house ought to contain a well
kept museum, or if a separate build
ing be granted the. Historical society
the collections of the academy should
be included.
Prof. e. Miller, for a quarter of a
century a co-worker with DIR. Snow in
the Kansas university delivered the
memorial address. FRANCIS Hunting
ton Snow, Scientist full of love and
admiration expressing the sentiments
of all who knew him.
He concluded as follows: Doctor
Snow was one of the seventeen men
who organized the Kansas Academy of
Science in 1868, and he continued to
be an active member all his life. He
published in the Transactions of the
Kansas Academy over an hundred
scientific articles. He wrote for other
scientific journals and magazines,
among them the American Naturalist,
Science, Kansas Educational Journal,
Bulletin NuttaH archaeological Club,
and Kansas Science Bulletin.
1.-The trend of DR.. Shows mind and
tastes was along the lines of natural
science. Nature was to him an open
book which he read with ever increas-
ing interest. He was a crowned prince
in the realm of nature.
Doctor Snow was a member Of
many scientific societies He
correspondent with men of science
in other lands and was recognized as
a scientist OF high rank. His praise
was upon the lips OF men everywhere.
Only a little while ago, widely
known man remarked of DR.. Snow:
What a grand, glorious, wonderful
man he is.' Snow Hall was named in
his honor.
''He loved his country and was will
ing to die for her. He loved Kansas,
He was more largely instrumental
than any other man in the upbuilding
of the University of Kansas. He more
than any other gave to the university
the lofty position it now holds in the
advancement and dissemination of
science As a matter of fact. Doctor
Snow had caught modern scientific
spirit on the wing. He impressed it
upon all who came under his instruc-
ton. Early in his course at his ma
rine laboratory it became more fully
developed Finally in the university
and on the western plains and noun
tains he was under its complete con-
troll Tt was the passion OF his life. No
at the time of his death, DR.. Francis
Huntington Snow was the first citizen
If Kansas, ars as such his name and
fame will be more enduring than
monument Of brass or marble"
Prof. L. E. Savre spoke of DR.. Snow
as a teacher Teaching to him was
a delightful task-ins ructton from
him was a refreshing diversion" he
his classroom. An injecting answer
passed unnoticed. and the correct an
swer was ever greeted with smile"
Prof. L. l.. Dyche talked of Dr.
ing fossils, meteorites and insects in
great number of which Prof. Dyche
was the right hand man. OF the
thousands and thousands of specimens
collected there are reports on file.
Others brought out many personal
"reminiscences of the doctor. He was
champion of co-education. He was
one of the first to espouse evolution.
railroad rail while Prof Dyche could
not In 1896 when DR.. Snow discov-
cred the ella monster in Arizona,
many asser' ed that the bite of this
death His experience is that "the eff
feet of ella monster bite have been
much exaggerated "Of course" said
he ''I have not had much experience
with them. The one I had planted six
teeth securely in my thumb, and suf-
fered no i'll effects"
Ellis charming and warm personal
ity was the secret of his power. He
never repulsed an ignorant inquirer
To illustrate how very scientific and
staid were these reports, here is one.
On one of those expeditions a band of
Indians killed a number of men in
their vicinity and threatened them.
Redskins rode around their camp day
and night stopping to converse on the
distant hilltops. and were seen peering
at the company from behind rocks and
brush The report is that cone dav
man came to our camp and said that
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