1^4 ^^^^ West A77ierican Scientist. 



A MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



The Coronado Beach Company has closed a contract with Prof. 

 Henry A. Ward, of Rochester, N. Y. , to equip a Museum of 

 Natural History, to be built in one of the parks near the Hotel 

 Del Coronado. The museum building will be 150x50 feet in size, 

 with an annex 20x35 feet. Professor Ward has a world-wide rep- 

 utation among scientific men, and his name alone will be sufficient 

 to attract attention to the new enterprise. Several years ago he 

 had a collection on exhibition in San Francisco, that was visited 

 by thousands of spectators, and created so much interest that a 

 determined effort was made to retain it in this city. Finally it 

 was purchased by Leland Stanford and Chas. Crocker, and by 

 them presented to the Academy of Sciences. The collection 

 which the Professor will place in the Coronada Museum will ex- 

 ceed in interest the one now in San Francisco. 



Professor Ward's specialty is the reproduction of extinct ani- 

 mals such as the mammoth, mastodon and other creatures of pre- 

 historic times. These results of Professor Ward's skill are so 

 graphic that the visitor to the musuem might imagine himself, 

 barring the roaring of the monsters, back in the tertiary period 

 and gazing upon a prehistoric menagerie. 



In addition to the museum proper Professor Ward will fit up in 

 the annex to the main a zooptican, similar to the one now at 

 Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco, and which has for years 

 proved an object of delight to visitors, both young and old. 



The price contracted to be paid to Professor Ward by the Cor- 

 onado Beach Company is ^28,000. This of course does not in- 

 clude the cost of the building, which will be of wood, but con- 

 structed in a tasteful and artistic manner, to correspond with its 

 surroundings. 



Professor Ward visited San Diego last spring, and was so 

 pleased with the climate that he has concluded to reside here a 

 portion of the year at least, and will take the museum under his 

 especial care. — San Diego Sun. 



USE YOUR PENCILS^ 



In all your studies you will find it of the greatest helpfulness to 

 make drawings of your specimens. I know it to be true that 

 every one can, with a little patience, and even no instruction, 

 draw well enough to make it his while to draw the best he can. 

 Don't say 'T can't draw." Don't say you have had no lessons. 

 Simply take a piece of plain smooth paper, and a hard pointed 

 pencil, and draw. Draw each object as it looks to you. When 

 you analyze a flower, make separate drawings of the separate 

 parts — the petals and sepals, stamens and pistils, ovary and ovules, 

 root, stem and leaves and sections of the same. Agassiz used to 



