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and the material are, to a great extent, obtainable from the cata- 

 logues and tlie museum of Prof. Ward. 



A recent examination of this establishment has suggested a brief 

 sketch of its nature, its capacity for supplying the want above indicated, 

 and of the additions which might advantageously be introduced. 



Prof. Ward was a pupil of Agassiz, and afterward Professor of 

 Natural History in Kochester University, where he formed a very ex- 

 tensive and well-arranged museum of geology, mineralogy, paleontol- 

 ogy, and zoology. Desiring to include with this fac-similes of unique 

 fossils in other museums, Prof. Ward spent three years in Europe, 

 and gradually accumulated moulds of famous fossils. The great ex- 

 pense of this undertaking (nearly $20,000) determined him to make 

 duplicates of the casts, and thus, by degrees, oi-iginated the now well- 

 known " Ward Series of Casts of Fossils ; " and at present, in many of 

 our educational institutions, large and small, the megatherium, iguano- 

 don, ichthyosaurus, and pterodactyl have become as familiar forms as 

 the professors themselves. 



The usefulness of this branch of the establishment is now gener- 

 ally recognized, and, with the mineralogical department, has been 

 graphically described by others,* so we may pass to the consideration 

 of what has been and may be accomplished by Prof. Ward for the 

 furnishing of zoological museums. 



At present, mounted insects and stuffed birds receive but little of 

 his attention, but the collections embrace representatives of the lead- 

 ing groups of the whole animal kingdom, more than 13,000 species 

 being represented. The echinoderms and Crustacea, being easily pre- 

 served in a dry state, are very numerous. They have recently been 

 carefully rearranged and determined by a professional naturalist. 



Prof. Ward keeps twenty-two advertisements in foreign journals, 

 and has correspondents in all parts of the globe, near and remote, so 

 that scarcely a week passes without his receiving word of the sending 

 to him of rare forms. 



At the time of our visit he was receiving the results of a late trip 

 to Europe (where he had expended about $10,000 for specimens). On 

 the same day arrived the skins and skeletons of two camels, the one 

 from Asia Minor, the other from Turkey. The taxidermists were en- 

 gaged upon a grizzly bear, a 1,000-pound turtle, and the now- famous 

 donkey which slew a lion in Cincinnati; while the osteologists were 

 mounting a whale's skeleton for the Peabody Academy of Science at 

 Salem, Massachusetts, and would then commence upon a large series 

 of skeletons for the Smithsonian Institution. 



A specimen of the rare tiger-shark {Crossorhinus dasypogon) had 

 just arrived from Australia. 



Ten men are constantly employed in the reception and arrange- 



1 As by Prof. E. S. Mor?e, in the American NaUiralist for April, 1873, and Prof. 

 Alexander Winchell, in the College Courant for October 1, 1870. 



