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half a century he should perish by street accident at home. If a 

 meteorite from the celestial spaces had struck him it would have 

 been fitting. His remains were cremated, as he wished, and rest 

 in an urn in a niche of the great glacial bowlder of jasper con- 

 glomerate which he had brought from Algoma district, Canada, and 

 placed in Mount Hope. 



" . . . In speaking of the advance made by American institutions in 

 natural science equipments, Dr. Goode says : 'In this connection should 

 be mentioned the very important influence of Professor Henry A. Ward, 

 who, in the conduct of the Natural History Establishment at Rochester, was 

 always evidently actuated quite as much by a love for natural history and 

 the ambition to supply good material to museums, as by hope of profit, 

 which was always by him subordinated to higher ideals in a manner not 

 very usual to commercial establishments." 



A GREAT MUSEUM BUILDER 

 (By W. T. Hornaday, in The Nation, July 12, 1906.) 



"Henry Augustus Ward, ... to whom the scientific museums of 

 America owe more than to any other man, was killed by an automobile 

 at Buflfalo, July 4. The world has its professors of zoology, its doctors 

 of science and its curators, but it has only one maker of museums in the 

 class of this remarkable man. He was a unique personage, and, viewed 

 to-day in the perspective which a third of a century can give, his genius and 

 his works bulk large. 



In the ordinary sense Professor Ward was neither a scientific investiga- 

 tor nor a college professor. In these lines he did not aspire to distinction; 

 but his formal title he acquired properly during the five-year period when he 

 was a member of the faculty of Rochester University, and there taught 

 the natural sciences. His life was devoted to culling scientifically and 

 accumulating the choicest objects for illustration of the processes of nature; 

 to converting them into museum specimens, and finally to building museums. 

 With him the idea of educating the masses in the natural sciences by 

 means of object-lessons became an absorbing passion. He cared for money 

 only to spend it in wider travel and more collections. And while he found 

 purchasers for great collections as no other man ever did, the huge checks 

 which he received he always joyously scattered to the ends of the earth in 

 the purchase of more 'museum material.' . . . 



Professor Ward's most notable achievement as a scientist and educator 

 was, in my estimation, the colossal task which culminated in the Ward Col- 

 lection of Casts of Celebrated Fossils. . . . Poor indeed is the college 

 or university museum which does not contain a series of 'Ward Casts.' 

 About two hundred sets of them have, I think, found lodgment in the 

 museums and higher institutions of learning in this country. The most 



