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their mounting. In the University building is Professor Ward’s 
zoological cabinet, still his private property, containing type 
forms of the animal kingdom. This is carefully labelled and is 
strictly an educational collection. . 
In Cosmos Hall is a large room containing a large and valuable 
geological collection, particularly rich’ in Ammonites, fossil cuttle 
fishes, with the ink glands still preserved; beautiful fossil fishes 
from the Lias of England and Germany; fine Saurians in slabs; 
Icthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Teleosaurus; also the leg bones and 
other remains of the remarkable Dinornis from New Zealand ; Mas- 
todon and other mammal remains, and an almost perfect skeleton 
of the rare Glyptodon, the gigantic fossil armadillo. 
Great interest attaches to this collection since it contains the 
original specimens of many of his casts, which have already a 
traditional value, now that so many institutions possess them. 
This series of originals is of intense interest, and will alone give 
tone and character to any geological cabinet in which they may 
be incorporated. In this room may also be seen relief maps and 
various models of geologigal import ; many of these are familiar to 
College professors through the descriptions and figures given in 
Ward’s “ Illustrated Catalogue.” At the time of our visit he was 
packing a series of casts for the Syracuse University, and a Mega- 
therium was being cast for Dartmouth College. A cast of the 
skeleton of this latter huge animal may be seen in the Geological 
Hall of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, where it was 
placed by Professor Ward, and copies of it are already in several 
other museums together with other of his specimens. The series 
of casts have been invaluable in advancing the study of geology, 
as their possession is just as important to the instructor in this 
department, as the possession of the manikin and skeleton is to 
the successful teaching of human anatomy. 
he zoological portion of Professor Ward’s establishment most 
interested us. Here all is on the same large scale. In bringing 
this collection together, Professor Ward has not only visited vari- 
ous portions of this country and Europe, Asia and Africa, but has 
his correspondents all over the world, and is constantly receiving 
from them most varied and rare material. While we were there 
he had just finished the preparation of a giraffe, thirteen feet in 
height, and was unpacking boxes containing a moose from Nova 
Cotia, a caribou from Maine, a bear from Pennsylvania, a huge 
