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basking-shark from the Atlantic coast; and, from Professor Agas- 
siz, a walrus, a small whale, and the rare Rocky Mountain goat, 
to be mounted for the Cambridge museum. 
One building is devoted to taxidermy. The upper room in this 
building is a wonder to behold; hanging from the ceiling are hun- 
dreds of skins, including apes, monkeys, wolves, bears, hyznas, 
lions, tigers, sloths, ant-eaters, armadillos, buffaloes, deer, elk, 
moose, giraffe, yak, wild boar, peccaries ; besides an immense col- 
lection of such animals as kangaroos, Echidna, Wombat, Tasma- 
nian devil, Ornithorynchus, Thylacinus and other rare skins. Some 
huge alligators, turtles and other reptiles completed the display. 
In an adjoining room are kept fishes, batrachians, and other speci- 
mens in alcohol; among these are Lepidosteus, Amia, Menopoma, 
-Spatularia, Scaphiorynchus, Aspidonectes, and other American 
species of special anatomical interest. Still another building is 
devoted exclusively to, the preparation of skeletons ; these are re- 
ceived with the flesh dried upon -m and are subjected to a long 
process of maceration and bleaching; over fifty vats are ready to 
receive them. These vats are all sy letciconidoaliy numbered, and 
the most painstaking care is manifested to secure every bone, so 
that each specimen may be perfect. Custom work is combined 
with all this; and hundreds of specimens are received from the 
museums of Cambridge, Boston, Salem, Philadelphia, Albany, 
and many of our colleges, for the purpose of being properly ee 
pared and mounted. 
We have dealt thus in detail that the public may know the true 
character of the enterprise in which Professor Ward is engaged; 
and the duty of every one interested in science and education to 
cordially sustain him. 
Professor Ward has by long study and by travel in foreign coun- 
tries, as well as by his long experience as a professional teacher of 
zoology and geology, fitted himself for the important and arduous 
task before him. 
He has received the unqualified endorsement of the leading nat- 
uralists, and his untiring devotion to the work, and the immense 
outlays he has made, should be widely known among those who 
desire to sustain in this country an institution where one may 
secure the material for the foundation of a museum, as well as 
— for educational purposes.—E. S. Morse. 
aw e had the pleasure last summer of’ visiting Professor Ward’s 
