FIFTY TEAKS OF MUSEUM WORK 



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The expeditions sent out by our museums to gather specimens were 

 foreshadowed by those made for the Establishment, notably by Mr. 

 Hornaday's two years' trip around the globe, an expedition made by 

 one man, with very limited expenditure of money, with results, consider- 

 ing men and money, that have never been equalled. 



And the popular publications of our museums had their prototype 

 in Ward's Natural Science Bulletin. It was started as an advertising 

 sheet, it is true, and it had an erratic existence of only six years, but it 

 had a distinguished corps of contributors and to this day I refer to its 

 pages for original and important information. 



There were no typewriters in those days and articles were written 

 in leisure moments when we were working nine and ten hours a day— 

 also we were our own artists, though perhaps that term may seem a 

 little flattering to those who have seen the pictures. 



Even play proved to be profitable and participation in the diver- 

 sions of the "Shakesperean Club" taught me to speak slowly and to face 

 my audience, no matter how small; later on I took to heart Doctor 

 Mason's admonition to talk to the people in the back seats and Profes- 

 sor Bickmore's remark that he never used a word of many syllables 

 when two or three good, short Anglo-Saxon words would serve. All 

 these are small matters, but too often neglected or not thought of by 

 amateur speakers, or writers. 



We naturally estimate the value of any institution, be it commercial 

 or educational, by the quality or quantity of the output. And as colleges 

 "point with pride" to the number of important positions occupied by 

 their graduates, so the Ward Establishment may vaunt itself upon the 

 number and importance of the places now held by men who derived a 

 part of their training within its walls. And I doubt very much if any 

 university can show so large a percentage of its graduates occupying 

 positions of responsibility and engaged in valuable educational work. 

 Its graduates include directors of three museums, the great Zoological 

 Park of New York, the New York Aquarium, three college professors, 

 the chief preparators of four of our greatest museums and many occu- 

 pants of positions in other scientific institutions. 1 



'Doctor Lucas prepared the following uncompleted notes on graduates of the Ward Establishment: 

 Members of the Ward Establishment who have been instrumental m the development of museum 

 methods or technique or whose stay at the Establishment had an influence on their subsequent career: 

 Akelev, Carl E » Taxidermist Collector. Inventor. Sculptor. Ward's, 1883-1887, Field Museum of 

 Natural History.' 1895-1900, American Museum of Natural History, 1909-1926, since 1921 in an 



Bake'!? ArtKr e B^Wa > ra , 8, 1879-1882, Supt. Public Schools, Trego Co., Kansas, 1887-1890. Since 1904 



Asst. Supt. Natl. Zool. Park, Washington. , 



P.akrr. IV, , k C,::;„s. \V : „.iV. Ivfl) 1VB, Curato,, ( 'hicap Acad N;i.. 1 S9 1 - 1 1 1 .., V V Mate Col- 

 ' ! of Forestry, 1915-1917, Curator, Mue. Nat. Hist., I mv. of 111. since 1918. 



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