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Professor Ward and his work, and there are some millions of us who 

 should also think of him with feelings of gratitude. In my opinion he has 

 done more toward the creation and expansion of the scientific museums of 

 the world than any other twenty men I could name, and the value of his 

 work as a scientific educator can never be estimated in dollars and cents. 



I knew him well ; and having quarreled with him frequently in the ardent 

 and aggressive days of my youth, I feel that I can now judge dispassion- 

 ately both his character and his work, and write his story eicactly as it is. 



It is said by some that familiarity breeds conternpt, and that no man is a 

 hero to his valet. It may be so, especially when the party of the second part 

 is a fool; but, at all events, after seven years of service with him, after 

 months of his society as a travelling companion, and twelve years more of 

 personal correspondence, I still can say that Henry A. Ward is the most 

 remarkable scientific genius I ever knew. . . . 



In this country, in England, Germany and France there are other men 

 who make a business of gathering and distributing scientific specimens for 

 museums ; but this man towers above them all like a colossus standing on a 

 plain. Where other men are able to supply the specimens for one small 

 department of a new scientific museum, his vast establishment can fill the 

 entire museum, from the lowest depths of geology up to man himself, with 

 every department reasonably complete. The whole of the Lewis Brooks 

 Museum, of the University of Virginia, except the building, was taken 

 bodily and at once out of the Rochester establishment, and scarcely made a 

 hole in it. When Marshall Field, of Chicago, gave his check for $100,000 

 in exchange for the entire Ward Collection at the World's Fair, a whole 

 museum was bought and 'located' in one day. 



In these days, the times require that every man shall have his special 

 work, bounded, limited and confined. In science no man now dares to at- 

 tempt to know it all. He must specialize within the fence that bounds his 

 particular bailiwick. . . . 



Know that Professor Ward belongs to neither of these classes of natural- 

 ists. With a fine scientific education, the inborn habit of investigation, and 

 a command of language — or I had better say languages — of which any 

 teacher might well be proud, he elected to carve out for himself a special 

 niche in the world and fill it all alone. 



. . . His life work began in carrying an old trunk filled with fossils 

 from the Paris Basin, across the English Channel, and selling its contents 

 to the London museums for a good round sum. Now, however, it requires 

 twenty-one freight cars, jammed to the roof, to transport such a collection 

 as that which constituted the 'Ward Exhibit' at the World's Fair of glorious 

 memory. 



. . . I have before me a list, closely printed, exactly the length of my 

 arm, of one hundred American museums, to each of which Professor Ward 

 has supplied collections. It is a roll of honor well worthy of being carved, 

 figures and all, on his monument. In reality it is a complete list of all the 

 scientific museums in the United States worthy of being mentioned any- 



