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Establish January, 1878. 
(NATUR/E DISCERE MORES.) 
Henry Siaer, PnDlislier- 
VOLUME X. 
SAINT LOUIS, MO., DECEMBER, 1878. 
Number 12. 
THE HUMBLE BEE, 
Insect lover of the sun, 
Joy of thy dominion ! 
Sailor of the atmosphere, 
Swimmer through the waves of air, 
Voyager of light and noon, 
Epicurean of June. 
Wait, I pray thee, till I come 
Within earshot of thy hum — 
All without is martyrdom. 
When the south wind in May days, 
With a net of shining haze 
Silvers the horizon wall ; 
And, with softness touching all, 
Tints the human countenance 
With a color of romance ; 
And infusing subtle heats 
Turns the sod to violets— 
Thou in sunny solitudes, 
Rover of the underwoods, 
The green silence dost displace 
With thy mellow breezy bass. 
Hot midsummer's petted crone, 
Sweet to me thy drowsy tune, 
Filling of countless sunny hours, 
Long days, and solid bank of flowers, 
Of Gulfs of sweetness without bound, 
In Indian wildernesses found; 
Of Syrian peace, immortal leasure, 
Firmest cheer and bird-like pleasure. 
Aught unsavory or unclean 
Hath my insect never seen, 
But violets and bilberry bells, 
Maple sap and daffodils, 
Clover, catchfly, adder's tongue, 
And brior-roses dwell among: 
All beside was unknown waste, 
All was pictured as he passed. 
— R. W. EMERSON. 
Ward's Cabinet Sold to Washington 
University. 
We are happy to announce the sale last 
month (but too late for our October issue) of 
this fine cabinet to our University. Profes- 
sor Ward brought the cabinet here from his 
great establishment in Rochester, in August, 
and left it here on display for two months, 
while he was himself engaged in mineral and 
other examinations in our western states. 
During this interval Prof. Potter of the Uni- 
versity took the matter in charge and worked 
with a subscription paper among friends of 
the University, and by perseverance and his 
high personal influence he raised in a short 
time the whole sum of $8,000, which was the 
exceedingly low price for which Prof. Ward 
offered, the cabinet when he brought it to St. 
Louis. The money has been paid and the 
great cabinet is now being arranged in a 
large museum hall prepared for the purpose 
at the University. 
The collection is very extended and rich in 
the two chief departments of mineralogy 
and geology, and has as an adjunct about a 
hundred models in glass of representative 
types of Invertebrate animals, living in our 
present seas, and belonging to the depart- 
ment of modern zoology. These models, of 
life size, and most exquisite in their strange 
and varied forms, and in th e delicacy of their 
colors. They, like the case of jems among 
the minerals formed the great centre of at- 
traction to the ladies who crowded around 
them at the display of the collection on 
Fourth street. The cabinet of minerals was 
not large, but was very choice. We, at St. 
Louis, have never before seen such splendid 
specimens of several score of minerals as 
were here brought together. The agates, 
chalcedony, calcites, zinc, iron, tin, lead and 
copper ores were in superb specimens, shin- 
ing, fresh and finely crystalized. We noticed 
with interest Prof. Ward's plan of mounting 
the specimens, each one on a distinct block 
or pedestal, with a printed label, which gives 
besides the name and locality (as is generally 
done) the additional facts of its chemical and 
crystallographical formulae. 
The Geological cabinet has two parts or 
divisions. One is a large series of , rocks 
from all parts of the world. It includes, we 
believe most of the known varieties of Gran- 
ite, Sylvite, Porphyry, Basalt, Trop, Trach- 
yte, Quartzite, Slate, Limestones, Gypsums, 
Alabaster, Coals, etc., The polished mar- 
bles and the ores were magnificent and all 
were of uniform and large size. 
Prof. Ward's casts of Celebrated Fossils 
are after all the great attraction in his col- 
lection. While we were thinking about how 
we might best describe this most unique and 
attractive department, we have seen in the 
Globe -Democrat an article on Prof. Ward's 
display which is so spicy and at the same 
time so true a description and so interesting 
that we have decided to present it in full to 
our readers. 
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The writer says: 
" George Augustus Sala, in one of the 
numbers of the Welcome Guest, printed ever 
so many years ago, tells the story of a natur- 
alist who had an insatiable passion for col- 
lecting rare and curious specimens of every 
kind. He had, by dint of diligent research, 
amassed a collection that no museum in 
Europe could excel, when he heard of a 
gigantic crustacean haunting some lone 
island in the Pacific ocean. Nothing would 
do but he must charter a vessel and crew and 
proceed toward Ultima Thule in quest of 
this monster of the deep. How he bade his 
wife and friends adieu, how the savants of 
the city on the shore w r atched the vessel re- 
ceding from their gaze till the horizon hid 
the last spar from their view; how the crew T 
lingered neither for sea-serpent nor kraken, 
but kept straight on to the goal of the own- 
er's scientific ambition; how the mailed 
Homarus of the Indian seas made a meal of 
the rash adventurers, and how " the widow 
sold the collection for a good round sum and 
married the curate, for whom she had long- 
had a tender feeling," is all graphically told 
by the chief of literary hacks. And, strange 
to say, outre as Mr. Sala's story may seem, it 
has its frequent parallel in the annals of 
scientific research. Tales of collector's ad- 
ventures are often rich and rare, and it is of 
a collector in a way that is peculiarly Amer- 
ican that the present sketch shall speak. 
His name is Henry A. Ward, and is Pro- 
fessor of Geology and Zoology in the Univer- 
sity of Rochester, N. Y. At Rochester he 
has a big factory for the manufacture, pre- 
paration and fitting of scientific specimens. 
Fancy ten large two-story buildings, besides 
sheds and yards all devoted to receiving, 
preparing and shipping specimens, with a 
score of men working like beavers as taxi- 
dermists, osteologists, moulders and miner- 
alogists. But there they are, and if you 
want to see samples of their work you can 
visit 13 south Fourth street, this city (no 
charge, "come in or keep out " is all the 
door-keeper will say), and satiate your crav- 
ing for the romance of science without the 
least trouble. 
After entering this museum the first thing 
you come across is the skull of a bigDinoth- 
erium, a burly beast from the Rhine Valley 
of the tertiary age, that had huge downward 
tusks and fed on lacustrine weeds. You see 
the big tusks and ask if Mr. Dinotherium 
usually traveled with a trunk. Mr. Ward 
says not, and points to the small nerve fora- 
men; "small nerve, small proboscis, some- 
thing after the tapir fashion probably." 
Next is a Mammoth's skull, and then another 
skull of the same genus with a pair of tusks 
that must have been very useful in repress- 
ing any unnecessary activity on the part of 
their owner. Close by the mammoth skull 
—perhaps it would be as well to state that 
the mammoth stood sixteen feet in his socks, 
and measured twenty-six feet from the brist- 
ly end of his tail to the tip of his front teeth 
or tusks — stands a scale-clad varmint, sup- 
posed to be a king bee among the armadillos 
and called Glyptodon. His carapace is unus- 
ually extensive, and so constructed that the 
