THE 
Commercial Travelers- 
home Magazine. 
Vol. VI. 
FEBRUARY, 189(>. 
No. 2 
THE KING OF MUSEUM-BUILDERS- 
THE KING of rauseum-biiilders i:^ an 
American; and the greatest scientific 
M\e world is at beantiful 
V in the shadow of her 
v^v^rmi: V lie Americans we have 
reaBon t" t- ■ '^"1 "t* Professor AVard 
lUid his work, and til millions of 
us who should also thi:.i. : Li-\^i!h feelings 
of gi*atitude. In my opinion he Iska done more 
toward the creation and expansion of the scien- 
tific mu^^enms of the world than any other 
twenty mm I could name, and the valneof his 
work as a wrientifio ed acator can never be esti- 
mated in dollarB and cents. 
I know him well ; and having quarreled with 
him frequently iu tho ardent and aggressive 
days of my youth, I feel that I can now judge 
dispassionately both his character and hie 
work, and write his story exactly as it is. 
It is said by some that familiarity breeds con- 
tempt, and by others that no man is a hero to 
his valet It may be so, especially when the 
purtv of the second part is a fool ; but, at all 
events, after seven years of service with him, 
after months of his society as a traveling com- 
panion, and twelve years more of personal cor- 
respondence, I Btill can say that Professor 
Henry A. Ward is the most remarkable scien- 
tific geniua I ever knew. It is because that in 
his line he stands so preeminent, so wholly 
alone,and so completely clothed in his own orig- 
inality that I consider it worth while to tell 
this story of him, and tell it now. 
In this connti-y, in England. Germany and 
France there are other men who make a busi- 
ness of gathering and distributing scientific 
specimens for museums ; but this man towers 
above them all like a colossus standing on a 
plain. Where other men are able to supply 
the specimens for one small department of a 
new scientific museum, his vast establishment 
can fill the entire museum, from the lowest 
depths of geology up to man himself, with 
every department reasonably complete. Tl^e 
