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Adjoining all these buildings on the north is a spacious and well-lighted 

 square house, in the upper right hand corner of which is 'the study,' — 

 dear to the memory of I cannot tell how many naturalists, both young and 

 old. In the front right hand corner of the big study which is walled with 

 books, barricaded with maps and eternally littered with scientific papers 

 and pamphlets and photographs and drawings and small specimens, there 

 sits the presiding genius of this unique world. No man is more busy than 

 he, yet Abraham Lincoln himself was not more approachable, nor more 

 kind toward everyone desiring to see him. 



Twenty-one years ago, when I was ... a college student, no sooner 

 did I hear of this strange man than I fired a letter at him, modestly stat- 

 ing that I would like to have him teach me everything I most desired to 

 know. When Professor Bessey read his kind, and even fatherly reply, he 

 remarked with vigor, 'Well, that man is no churl, that's plain.' And truly 

 he was not, as many an American naturalist can testify." 



Here follows a list of eminent men in the scientific world, with 

 their positions and work, who were started in the Ward establish- 

 ment. Hornaday names G. K. Gilbert, James Orton, Frederic A. 

 Lucas, Walter B. Barrows, E. W. Staebner, Edwin E. Howell, 

 Charles H. Townsend, J. W. Schollick, and the two sons, Charles 

 H. Ward and Henry L. Ward. 



Other names that now should be given are : William M. Wheeler, 

 Frank C. Baker, R. H. Pettit, Carl Akeley, Henry L. Preston, 

 George H. Chadwick, A. B. Baker, and Charles Bull. 



"Scores of other men have been trained here in various branches of 

 scientific work, and have gone forth to fill positions of responsibility. The 

 Society of American Taxidermists, which in five years' time wrought a 

 complete revolution in taxidermic work in America, was founded here in 

 1880 by Professor Ward's taxidermists, and in all its work always received 

 from him hearty sympathy as well as active support and co-operation. It 

 is my firm conviction that no man living has done as much toward the 

 promotion of the art of taxidermy as has been done by Henry A. Ward 

 and the influences created by him. . . . 



Of all the travellers I have ever known, aye, or ever heard of, Professor 

 Ward is the most persistent, and I may still say, unsatisfied. ... I, too, 

 love to travel ; but it makes me feel both tired and homesick to think of 

 all the trips abroad he has taken. There is hardly a nook or corner in the 

 United States that he has not been to or through, and the same is true of 

 Europe. Egypt, Nubia, Arabia and Somaliland are merely nice winter play- 

 grounds for him, and Zanzibar, Abyssinia, Mozambique, Zululand, Natal, 

 Cape Colony and Griqualand, 800 miles in the interior of South Africa, have 

 all been ransacked by him for specimens. So also with Japan, Australia, 

 Patagonia and Brazil." 



