THE TALLET Isr^TTJ^-A-LIS' 
critter's head protrudes at one end, and his 
tail, that looks like a warty stalactite, at the 
other. Admiral Dupotet picked him up 
somewhere down in Montevideo, and depos- 
ited him at the Jardins des Plantes, offering 
to sell or lease on favorable terms. But the 
Paris folks didn't buy, and the Admiral's 
widow donated the walking grotto to the 
town museum at Dijon, and the Dijon folks 
fetched him away, all but the head, which 
couldn't be found. There was any amount 
of scientific bickering between the authori- 
ties of the two museums over the transfer, 
and when Mr. Ward visited Dijon to make a 
cast of the unique specimen, permission was 
only granted on condition he didn't sell a cast 
to the Jarden des Plants. But by and by the 
head turned up in paris. Mr. Ward went a- 
long and got permission to make a cast, with 
the proviso he shouldn't sell one to the Dijon 
folks. So Paris had a head and no carapace 
or tail, and Dijon had a carapace and tail but 
no head. After long quarrelling a truce was 
agreed on. Dijon got a cast of the head and 
Paris got a cast of the body covering of the 
glyptodon, and there was peace among sci- 
entists once more. 
The largest specimens Mr. Ward has on 
exhibition at St. Louis are casts. He visited 
every museum in Europe, and wherever he 
found a rare specimen, or typical form of un- 
usual excellence, he managed to get molds 
and make casts. 
Sometimes it was plain sailing to get the 
necessary permission and sometimes it 
wasn't. When he copied the big Ballarat 
nugget, valued at over $200,000, and the 
workmen had to labor with sleeves rolled up 
-to their shoulders, so careful were the 
authorities of the depositary bank. At the 
British Museum he wanted to get a cast of 
the fossil Archseopteryx, the long-tailed bird 
of the Solenhofen lithographic slate. He saw 
Prof. Richard Owen, who showed him the 
long array of caudal vertebras with the feath- 
er marks on each side, and pointed out this 
and that peculiarity of structure and then 
said: " Curious specimen, very. We 
haven't quite described it as yet," and then 
shut him up with a snap. So Mr. Ward 
didn't get a cast there. 
But he got lots of other things. There is 
hardly a point of importance in paleontology 
which can not be successfully illustrated 
from this collection. There are the trilobites 
and crinoids of the upper Silurian, the fishes 
(Holoptychius especially) of the Old Red 
Sandstone, the curious crustaceans of the 
Triassic, and the big frog (Labyrinthodon) 
of the same deposit. The saurians of the 
Lias are presented in full force. The res- 
toration of the Ishthyosaurus and Plesiosau- 
rus are so wonderfully life-like you almost 
expect to see them wave their tails. As for 
ammonites of all kinds, fossil crinoides, bel- 
emnites and pterodactyls, you will find 
enough to occupy a directory man three 
weeks in taking a census. Fossils from the 
chalk are plenty, and as for the tertiary spec- 
imens, the array is simply immense. There 
is a marsh turtle from the Siwalek Hills that 
would be a fortune to any restaurant in St. 
Louis; the eggs of iEpiornis, the foot of Din - 
ornis, and the head and foot of the Dodo. 
Up on the wall hangs a cast of the fossil man 
from Mauritius, probably only a few hun- 
dred years old, and on a shelf below is the 
skull of the cave bear and the Engis and 
Neanderthal human skulls, the oldest speci- 
mens of humanity extant. And not to slight 
any respectable beast that had his own sweet 
will in the wilds of the remote past, there 
are authentic remains of the teleosaurus, 
the megal osaurus, the megatherium, the me- 
galonyx and tracks of the long-legged bird 
that walked over the estuarine shores of 
Connecticut when ' steady habits ' were un- 
known." 
Never before has St. Louis had so rare and 
valuable a scientific exhibition as is this 
great cabinet which Prof. Ward has dis- 
played to our citizens. Washington Univer- 
sity may well be proud of it. 
List of Iowa Mollusca. 
Below we give a list Iowa molluska in the 
collection of Professor P. M. Witter of Mus- 
catine, Iowa, up to January, 1S78. 
HELICIDiE. 
Helix albolabris, Say. 
H. alternata, Say. 
H. arborca, Say. 
H. clausa, Say. 
H. concava, Say. 
H. fulva, Drap. 
H. hirsuta, Say. 
H. labyrinthica, Say. 
H. lineata, Say. 
H. minuscula, Binney. 
H. monodon, Rackett. 
H. monodon, var. leaii, Ward. 
H. multilineata, Say. 
H. striatella, Anthony. 
H. profunda, Say. 
H. thyroides, Say. 
Cionella subcylindrica, Linn. 
Pupa armifera, Say. 
P. contracta, Say. 
P. fall ax, Say. 
P. pentodon, Sav. 
Succinea avara, Morse. 
S. obliqua, Say. 
S. ovalis, Gould. 
Limax camdestris, Binn. 
PHILOMYCIDiE. 
Tepenophorus carolinensis, Bosc. 
aukiculd.t:. 
Carychium exignum, Say. 
-LIMlST^EIDiE. 
Limnea caperata, Say. 
L. desidiosa, Say. 
L. rellexa, Say. 
Physa gyrina, Say. 
P. heterostropha, Say. 
Planobris bicarinatus, Say. 
P. defleetus, Say. 
P. exacutns, Say. 
P. parvus, Say. 
P. trivolvis, Say. 
Segmentina wheatleyi, Lea. 
Ancylus fuseus, Adams. 
VALVATID.E. 
Valvata tricarinata, Say. 
VIVIPARID/E. 
Lioplax subcarinata. Say. 
Melantho subsolida, Anthony. 
Vivipara intertexta, Say. 
RISSOIDiE. 
Amnicola cincinnatiensis, Anthony. 
A. porata, Say. 
Bythinella obtusa, Lea, 
Somatogyrus isogonus, Say. 
STIlEPOMATIDiE . 
Pleurocera subulare, Lea. 
CORBICULAD^E. 
Sphaerium sphaericum, Anthony. 
S. stamineum, Conrad. 
S. transversum, Say. 
Pisidium compressum, Prime, 
UNIONISE. 
Anodonta corpulenta, Cooper. 
A, edentula, Say. 
A. ferussaciana, Lea. 
A. grandis, Say. 
A. imbecilis, Say. 
A. suborbiculata, Say. 
Margaritans complanata, Barnes. 
M. confragosa, Lea. 
M. deltoidea, Lea. 
M. marginata, Say. 
M. rugosa, Barnes. 
Unio sesopus, Green. 
U. alatus. Say. 
U. anodontoides, Lea. 
U. asperrlmus, Lea. 
U. cap ax, Green. 
U. cornutus, Barnes. 
U. crassidens, Lamarck. 
U. ebenus, Lea. 
U. elegans, Lea, 
U. ellipsis, Lea. 
U. gibbosus, Barnes. 
U. gracilis, Barnes. 
U. graniferus, Lea. 
U. lsevissimus, Lea. 
U. ligamentinus, Lamark. 
U. luteolus, Lamark. 
U. metenevrus, Rafinesque. 
U. mississippiensis, Conrad. 
U. occiclens, Lea. 
U. mytiloides, Rafinesque, 
U. occidens. Lea, 
U. mytiloides, Rafinesque, 
U. orbiculates, Hildreth. 
U. parvus, Barnes. 
U. plicatus, Barnes. 
U. pustulatus, Lea. 
U. pustulosus, Lea. 
U. rectus, Lamark. 
U. rubiginosus, Lea. 
U. securis, Lea. 
U. tenuissimus, Lea. 
U. trigonus, Lea. 
U. tuberculatus, Barnes. 
U. triangularis, Barnes. 
IT. undulatus, Barnes. 
U. wardii, Lea. 
U. zigzag, Lea. 
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