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noteworthy objects are the great Megatherium, the Dinotherium, Glyptodon, 

 Colossochelys, Mastodon, and Elephas ganesa. . . . 



Henry A. Ward was the first American to take up the making of museums 

 in a systematic and scientific manner. The collection which he finished 

 about 1862 and placed for the citizens of Rochester in the museum of the 

 University of Rochester, may justly be regarded as having set the pace. 

 Even after the lapse of [44] years it is a good object lesson to aspiring 

 museum builders, a collection to study and admire. ... As early as 

 1873 when the best of our scientific museums were in their swaddling 

 clothes, and skilled museum preparators were a negligible quantity, Pro- 

 fessor Ward assembled at Rochester a corps of the best French, German, 

 and American taxidermists, osteologists, moulders, and modellers, that high 

 wages could procure. In 1876 I was astonished at finding that Rochester 

 afforded better facilities for the study of museum making than Paris, Lon- 

 don or Berlin. 



About eight years ago Professor Ward . . . relinquished the detailed 

 management of the Rochester establishment. After that he devoted much 

 time to completing his collection of meteorites, which for nearly twenty 

 years has been a favorite interest. He brought it to a remarkable state 

 of perfection (the largest in the world). His last literary work was the 

 publication of an elaborate annotated catalogue of the collection ; a model 

 of its kind." 



Ward wrote little for scientific journals until late in life, but 

 the many illustrated catalogues of the Establishment were witness 

 to his scientific knowledge. The Catalogue of Casts was probably 

 the best general work on Paleontology of its time in America. Two 

 very interesting articles were printed in the Democrat & Chronicle 

 of November 17, ^4, 1889, written at Punta Arena, Patagonia, 

 relating his experiences in an extensive trip in South America. 



In the last years of his life he published many interesting descrip- 

 tions of new meteorites. Seven articles were in the American 

 Journal of Science; one in volume 49 (1895), one in vol. 5 (1898), 

 two in vol. 15 (1903), and one each in vol. 17 (1904) vol. 19 

 (1905) and vol. 23 (1907). The Mineral Collector for September, 

 1904, contained an interesting article by him on the values of 

 meteorites. His best meteorite articles were published in the Pro- 

 ceedings of this society ; one in volume 2, and seven in volume 4, 

 with 23 full-page plates. Two of these papers were the first 

 descriptions, with photographic illustrations, of two of the most 

 remarkable meteorites ever found. One is the Bacubirito iron, 

 in Sinaloa, Mexico ; the other, the Willamette, from Oregon. The 



