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and skulls prepared here are beautiful in their whiteness and 

 the elegance of their mounting. In the University building is 

 Professor Ward's zoological cabinet, still his private property, 

 containing type forms of the animal kingdom. This is carefully 

 labelled and is strictly an educational collection. 



In Cosmos Hall is a large room containing a large and valuable 

 geological collection, particularly rich in Ammonites, fossil cuttle 

 fishes, with the ink glands still preserved ; beautiful fossil fishes 

 from the Lias of England and Grermany; fine Saurians in slabs ; 

 Icthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Teleosaurus ; also the leg bones and 

 other remains of the remarkable Dinornis from New Zealand ; 

 Mastodon and other mammal remains, and an almost perfect 

 skeleton of the rare Grlyptodon, the gigantic fossil armadillo. 



Great interest attaches to this collection since it contains the 

 original specimens of many of his casts, which have already a 

 traditional value, now that so many institutions possess them. 

 This series of originals is of intense interest, and will alone give 

 tone and character to any geological cabinet in which they may 

 be incorporated. In this room may also be seen relief maps and 

 various models of geological import ; many of these are familiar 

 to College Professors through the descriptions and figures given in 

 Ward's " Illustrated Catalogue." At the time of our visit he was 

 packing a series of casts for the Syracuse University, and a Mega- 

 therium was beins: cast for Dartmouth College. A cast of the 

 skeleton of this latter huge animal may be seen in the Geological 

 Hall of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, where it was 

 placed by Professor Ward, and copies of it are already in several 

 other museums together with other of his specimens. The series 

 of casts have been invaluable in advancing the study of geology, 

 as their possession is just as important to the instructor in this 

 department, as the possessson of the manikin and skeleton is to 

 the successful teaching of human anatomy. 



The zoological portion of Professor Ward's establishment most 

 interested us. Here all is on the same large scale. In bringing 

 this collection together. Professor Ward has not only visited vari- 

 ous portions of this country and Europe, Asia and Africa, but 

 has correspondents all over the world, and is constantly receiving 

 from them most varied and rare material. While we were there 

 he had just finished the preparation of a giraffe, thirteen feet in 

 lieight, and was unpacking boxes containing a moose from Nova 

 Scotia, a caribou from Maine, a bear from Pennsylvania, a huge 



