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on those investigations which have enabled Chancellor Snow to give to the farmers of Kansas a remedy for one of their worst enemies, the chinch bug. Here constant study of insects and their parasites is pursued. On the first floor are the laboratories of the department of paleontology. Here fossils are studied. Here too is carried on the work in anatomy and physiology. In the basement are the work rooms of the geological department. From this department go out those parties who make the surveys of the state and who do so much
tastes for the low and disgusting. All insects were known as "bugs," and all were alike considered hideous and repulsive with the exception perhaps of some of the butterflies. Students of this subject were known derisively as "bug sharps," "grub trappers," "grasshopper tender-feet," etc, and it is only in late years that they have begun to gain the respect of the masses by routing the insect enemies of agriculture, and thus placing their study in the practical light of a public benefit.
Every state now has its special salaried in-
CHANCELLOR SNOW'S RESIDENCE.
toward determining the value of Kansas rocks and soils. The museums occupying the west half of each floor are of great interest. In them are gathered the curiosities and treasures of the South and West.
DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY.
Entomology and its practical applications have made more marked advance in recent years than any of the kindred sciences. The time was once when the student of entomology was regarded as a harmless sort of fool with
vestigators in this line. Upon the advice of entomologists state legislatures do not hesitate to appropriate large sums of money for the eradication of injurious insects. Massachusetts is spending many thousands of dollars every year to fight a single pest that threatens to spread over a large part of the state. In California and Illinois the public schools are enjoined by law to teach the rudiments of the science.
In Kansas the State University is known all over the world for the success which has at-