NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 135 



Amazon river, 120; other miscellaneous archeologic and eth- 

 noloji'lc specimens, 100. 



Specially valuable specimens are, the type specimens of Tru- 

 deau's tern; several birds collected by Audubon, one of which, 

 the j?reat auk, the rarest of birds, was the original of his great 

 steel plate engraving of the auk; a male specimen of the Lab- 

 rador duck; several characteristic and finely mounted bird 

 groups; a very large collection of South American humming 

 birds; two condors, one reputed to be the largest in the country; 

 a fine pair of California vultures; several ivory-billed wood- 

 peckers; two male resplendent trogons; a moa skeleton; a 

 mounted gorilla of great size and a skeleton of a gorilla; a fine 

 narwhal tusk; a mammoth tusk and scapula; a mastodon skel- 

 eton; a fine group of the fur seal, male, female and pup from the 

 Pribyloff islands; a mounted tarpon; a plaster cast of an im- 

 mense fossil armadillo (Schistopleurum); 3 skulls of Titan- 

 otherium from Nebraska; a complete series of teeth in jaws of 

 fossil horses illustrative of the evolution of that animal from 

 the lower Eocene to the Pleistocene, donated by Prof. H. F. 

 Osborn; a series of paleontologic casts of vertebrates, prepared 

 at the American museum of natural history; a remarkably per- 

 fect and fairly complete specimen of the mosasaur Clidastes 

 V e 1 o X , on a single slab of stone, 8 feet long, from the Cretace- 

 ous of Kansas; a set of 100 microscopic sections of bryozoans 

 with accompanying specimens, prepared by E. O. Ulrich; a large 

 set of Ziegler's embryologic models; a complete set of Reeve's 

 Iconica Gonoliologica, and many other valuable conchological 

 works, purchased with Witthaus's large and fine collection of 

 niolluscan shells and kept wdth them in the museum. 



An annual fund of not less than |850, |100 of which comes 

 from a legacy of J. P. Giraud jr and the balance from a fund 

 established by the founder, Mr Yassar, is available for the 

 purchase of new^ specimens. 



Ward's natural science establishment (a commercial museum) 

 Rochester. Frank A. Ward, secretary and treasurer; E. T. lekes 

 and H. L. Preston, in charge of the inorganic department; also 

 a staff of 16 assistants in the various departments. This com- 

 pany is incorporated under the laws of New^ York, with a capital 



