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Ibasking-shark from the Atlantic coast; and, from Professor 

 j\gassiz, a walrus, a small whale, and the rare Rocky Mountain 

 goat, to be mounted for the Cambridge museum. 



One building is devoted to taxidermy. The upper room in 

 this build inof is a wonder to behold ; han2:inf>; from the ceiliui»: are 

 hundreds of skins, including Apes, Monkeys, Wolves, Bears, 

 Hj^aenns, Lions, Tigers, Sloths, Ant-eaters, Armadillos, Buf- 

 faloes, Deer, Elk, Moose, GiraflFe, Yak, Wild Boar, Peccaries; 

 besides an immense collection of such animals as Kangaroos, 

 Echidna, Wombat, Tasmanian devil, Ornithorynchus, Thylacinus,' 

 and other rare skins. Some huge Alligators, Turtles, Iguanas 

 and other reptiles completed the display. In an adjoining room 

 are kept fishes, batrachians, and other specimens in alchohol ; 

 among these are Lepidosteus, Amia, Menopoma, Spatularia, 

 Scaphiorynchus, Aspidonectes, and other American species of 

 anatomical interest. Still another building is devoted exclusively 

 to the preparation of skeletons ; these are received with the flesh 

 dried upon them, and are subjected to a long process of macera- 

 tion and bleaching; over fift}" vats are ready to receive them* 

 These vats are all systematically numbered, and the most pains- 

 taking care is manifested to secure every bone so that each speci- 

 men may be perfect. Custom work is combined with all this; 

 and hundreds of specimens are received from the museums of 

 Cambridge, Boston, Salem, Philadelphia, Albany, and many 

 of our colleges, for the purpose of being properly prepared and 

 mounted. 



We have dealt thus in detuil that the public may know the 

 true character of the enterprise in which Professor Ward is en- 

 gaged ; a«d the duty of every one interested in science and edu- 

 cation to cordially sustain him. 



Professor Ward has by long study and by travel in foreign 

 countries, as well as by his long experience as a professional teach- 

 er of zoology and geology, fitted himself for the important and 

 arduous task before him. 



He has received the unqualified endorsement of the leading 

 naturalists, and his untiring devotion to the work, and the im- 

 mense outlays he has made, should be widely known among those 

 who desire to sustain in this country an institution where one 

 may secure the material for the foundation of a museum, as well 

 as examples for educational purposes. — E. S.Morse. — Ain. Nat. 



[We have received from Prof. Ward a catalogue of the osteo 



