NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 135 



Amazon rivor, 120; other miscollanooiis archcologio and eth- 

 nologic siK'cimens, 100. 



8i>ecially valuable specimens are, the type specimens of Tru- 

 deairs ti*rn; several birds collected by Audubon, one of which, 

 the ^n'cat auk, the rarest of birds, was the original of his great 

 steel plate engraving of the auk; a male specimen of the Lab- 

 r;ulor duck; several characteristic and finely mounted bird 

 groups; a very large collection of South American humming 

 birds; two condors, one reputed to be the largest in the country; 

 a fine pair of California vultures; several ivory-billed w^ood- 

 peckers; two male resplendent trogons; a moa skeleton; a 

 mounted gorilla of great size and a skeleton of a gorilla; a fine 

 narwhal tusk; a mammoth tusk and scapula; a mastodon skel- 

 eton; a fine group of the fur seal, male, female and pup from the 

 Pribyloff islands; a mounted tarpon; a plaster cast of an im- 

 mense fossil armadillo (Schistopleurum); 3 skulls of Titan- 

 otherium from Nebraska; a complete series of teeth in jaws of 

 fossil horses illustratiA'e of the evolution of that animal from 

 the lower Eocene to the Pleistocene, donated bv Prof. H. F. 

 Osborn; a series of paleontologic casts of vertebrates, prepared 

 at the American museum of natural history; a remarkably per- 

 fect and fairl}^ complete specimen of the mosasaur C 1 i d a s t e s 

 T e 1 o X , on a single slab of stone, 8 feet long, from the Cretace- 

 ous of Kansas; a set of 100 microscopic sections of bryozoans 

 with accompanying specimens, prepared by E. O. Ulrich; a large 

 set of Ziegler's embryologic models; a complete set of Reeve's 

 loonlca Conoliologlca, and many other valuable conchological 

 works, purchased w^ith Witthaus's large and fine collection of 

 molluscan shells and kept with them in the museum. 



An annual fund of not less than |850, |100 of which comes 

 from a legacy of J. P. Giraud jr and the balance from a fund 

 established by the founder, Mr Vassar, is available for the 

 purchase of new specimens. 



Ward's natural science establishment (a commercial museum) 

 Rochester. Frank A. ^Vard, sccretarif and treasurer; E. T. lekes 

 and H. L. Preston, in charge of the inorganic department; also 

 a staff of 16 assistants in the various departments. This com- 

 pany is incorporated under the laws of New^ York, with a capital 



