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track and roadbed of 100-poiind rails on steel cross ties, with broken 

 stone ballast, a sample of section No. 1 extending from Grand (,'entral 

 yard to Mott Haven. 



An interesting feature from a historical standpoint and forming a 

 striking comparison with the methods of ordinary rail locomotion, was 

 the working model of the first successful engine evei- run in New York 

 State, the "De Witt Clinton," together with the coaches. 



Ward's Natural Science Establishment, of Rochester, N. Y., made 

 one of the largest private exhibits at the exposition. Their exhibits of 

 rocks and marbles occupied the north end of the west gallery of the 

 Mining Building, and their exhibits of minerals and meteorites the south 

 end of the east gallery of the same building. The entire south gallery 

 of the Anthropology Building was filled by their collections of fossils, 

 easts of celebrated fossils, shells and corals, mounted skins of mam- 

 mals, birds, reptiles, batrachians and fishes, and mounted skeletons of 

 the same classes. Below this, on the ground floor, was their exhibit of 

 human anatomj^, consisting of mounted and disarticulate skeletons and 

 parts of skeletons and anatomical models. 



Besides these exhibits there were numerous archaeological and ethno- 

 logical objects loaned by them to the chief of the anthropological 

 department and exhibited under his auspices. The exhibits by this 

 establishment were part of one great systematic collection of natural 

 history that was thus divided into sections because sufBcient room to 

 exhibit it as a whole could not be obtained in any single building of 

 the exposition. The main divisions of the collection were : Mineral- 

 ogy, geology and petrology, palaeontology, invertebrate zoology, verte- 

 brate zoology, comparative anatomy and human anatomy. Each one 

 of these divisions was a carefully planned unit by itself, covering the 

 ground of each science as thoroughly and evenly as possible and still 

 keeping the value ($100,000) within the purchasing means of some of 

 the larger institutions of the country. Care was taken in each of 

 these divisions to present in a thorough manner all aspects of the 

 science, whether biological or geological sequence and relationships, 

 geographical distribution and individual and geographical variations. 

 The classifications used in the various branches were those of the 

 recognized modern leaders in these divisions. 



Typical and characteristic specimens were largely represented, inter- 

 spersed here and there with rarities where necessary to present the 

 different subjects in the most thorough manner possible. Much care 



