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jaw, must have been enormous in grabbing up roots. The huge nasal fosse 
are, also, ae on striking proof of the existence in the living animal of _ 
a huge proboscis, such as is usually figured. Pictet and others, as you know, 
place this —— among the Sirenoids. 
ects to receive and to copy, also, in a few weeks, a cast of the 
femur of the Tisinetiosiocs. five Bogs long, as well as some other bones; and 
a head reduced in size. The cost of ee il bisa we siden a received, with a 
platform and irons for ‘ibang ie lars, and it has 
fives presented to the College by myself anid pay, est Ges oe of Lowell. 
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splendid cabinet which Professor Ward has collected, nt on secaahibialen in 
Rochester. By incredible indy, and visiting almost e every mation al- 
ity in Europe, and many in Asia pre Africa, as well as in this country, and 
Neither. do I remember to have seen it any + ion nt print, that Prof. 
Ward has had — in plaster almost all large and _ eo speci- 
ns in Paps cabinets of Europe, which are sold in such establishments as those 
ts) go are fully equal in eee - Bo 
and Gulseaty cheaper, to say nothing of transporta’ 
Tam very glad that Prof. Ward is able and willing to euporinteni this work, 
most 
them, and know that they are very satisfactory. I hope Prof. Ward will soon 
publish a catalogue, with prices, of such as his moulders can farnish.” 
We understand that an effort is on foot to secure this fine museum 
for the city of Rochester, It is an object well worthy of the ambition of 
heste 
secure the permanent establishment of the Ward Museum in their city, 
may eal pride themselves on the acquisition: they will hold the most 
extensive geol ical museum in the United States and secure 
. students in geology and mineralogy, who will come up to Rochester to 
ail themselves of the ee advantages connected with this mu- 
ans and the lectures of Prof. W pi who now holds the chair of natural 
ity of Rochester. 
science in the University a sare jag ERT gS OD 
soe described and figured in the great work of Prof. Hitch- 
a iecsiieiunk (el a recent letter, Dr. John L. Leconte has given 
r rapes g the relations of the species 
on p. 8 of Ichnology of led i appears to 
most a larva of a Neuropterous insect belonging to the 
The projections each side look to me like the 
the abdominal segments as seen in the larvy 
