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From the late President Hitchcock, of Amherst College. 



Amherst, Nov. 21st, 1803. 

 Prof. H. A. Ward, 

 My dear Sir, 



I have just sent you four large boxes containing moulds of twelve of the 

 more prominent slabs of tracks in our Ichnological Museum. The moulder 

 whom you sent on, copied these with much skill and truth ; and the casts 

 which you take from them will certainly be very close representations of the 

 originals, and give their possessors an exact view of these wonders from the 

 rocks of the Connecticut. 



I am delighted to see the excellent work which you are accomplishing 

 in the matter of these plaster copies of the larger and rarer fossils. Is is no 

 small thing thus to put into our hands, as it were, the wealth of the old 

 European Museums, and to re-create for us, in actual, tangible forms, the huge 

 and strange animals which walked our globe in the age of Reptiles and of 

 Mammals, or swam and crawled through the muddy wastes of the Palaeozoic 

 seas. Hardly anything coidd be more fortunate to American students of Geo- 

 logy than the appearance of these casts, of which you say that your Catalogue 

 will enumerate over 1000. They will be invaluable adjuncts to the scientific 

 department in every Academy, College or University in our country ; and it 

 would be folly for any one pretending to teach Geology not to make use of 

 them. I believe that our men of science in America will fully appreciate, and 

 be glad to profit by, your undertaking, and that you will have the satisfaction 

 of seeing that your labour has not been in vain. 



Our College has obtained from you as many of these casts as our funds 

 would permit, and we have much admired the care which you have expended in 

 making their form and color exact copies of the original specimens. For 

 the sake of Geological science, as well as for yourself, I wish you ample suc- 

 cess in your enterprise, and expect that you will have it 



Truly yours, 



EDWARD HITCHCOCK. 



From the American Journal of Science and Arts, for July, 1866. 



Prof. Henry A. Ward's Collection of Casts of Fossils, at Rochester, N. Y. 



Prof. Ward, in the course of his travels for the formation of his large Cabi- 

 net at Rochester, has had occasion to make casts of numerous fossils, large 

 and small, from the skeletons of Elephants, Mastodons, and the Guadaloupe 

 Man to shells of Rhizopods ; and he is consequently enabled to furnish copies 



