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purpose of making casts from them, and the originals are still 
preserved in his museum at Rochester. Every educational insti- 
tution in the country may now possess perfect casts of the rarest 
fossils, forming exact facsimiles of the unique originals in the 
British Museum, the Jardin des Plantes, and other foreign muse- 
ums, besides a representative collection of all that is needed to 
illustrate geological history. 
From this important beginning, Professor Ward has gone on en- 
larging the usefulness of his work by adding to his stock, skins 
and skeletons of animals, fossils and minerals, and alcoholic speci- 
mens, so that institutions may provide themselves with collections 
accurately labelled and arranged, without sending abroad for the 
purpose. 
With the capital invested in so large an enterprise, rapid sales 
must be effected, and one not familiar with the scientific attain- 
ments of Professor Ward, and the sole desire that animates him; to 
spread far and wide the type collections so important for educa- 
tional purposes, might confound his occupation with that of the 
ordinary dealer in natural history objects, such as one may find in 
any large city.. While in the latter case, however, with some lauda- 
ble exceptions, the dealers offer simply the fortuitous gatherings 
of sailors, comprising curiosities, shells, and detached portions of 
animals, like turtles’ shields, sharks’ jaws, and the like, of no in- 
trinsic value, the work in which Prof. Ward is engaged is one of 
a solid scientific character? His outlays are immense, yet every- 
thing he does is done solely in reference to advancing science. He 
has the endorsement of every naturalist in the country, and already 
the leading museums in the country are indebted to him for some 
of their choicest material. 
Every scientific man should visit Professor Ward’s place at 
Rochester, New York, and see the bee-hive of industry he has 
built up around him. We visited Rochester in February, solely for 
the purpose of examining the new industry. Here one finds sev- 
eral large buildings, besides sheds and yards devoted to receiving, 
preparing and shipping specimens. There are twelve men Con- 
-~ stantly employed as taxidermists, osteologists, moulders and car- 
penters. Two of the osteologists he has brought from the Jardin 
des Plantes, Paris, where they had worked for a long time under 
the direction of eminent anatomists. The skeletons and skulls 
eet here are beautiful in their whiteness and the elegance of 
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