THE KING OF MUSFMM-BUILDERS. 
boxes of petrified wood (v^Jiich mark a glorious 
picnic on camel back to Hie Libyan desert 
near Cairo), stuffed lizards with spines all 
over their tails, fossils from the Pyramids, and 
ibex heads bought of mild-mannered Bedouin 
cut-throats from Sinai. A little later he sent 
home more boxes full of queer marine things 
from Jedda, and Massowah, on the Red Sea ; 
and three months later was with his son, 
Henry L. Ward, in South America, despoiling 
monkeys of their skins and working up man- 
atees into "specimens." At that same time I 
was ravaging India in his interest, harvesting 
long- snouted crocodiles in Northern India. 
Indian bison, bear, tiger and monkeys galore 
in Southern India (twenty-six big cases all 
told), and fishes, corals, crocodiles and more 
monkeys in Ceylon. 
A Dundee whaling captain who returned 
that year kindly collected, *'for "Ward," three 
narwhals and a magnificent polar bear. He 
had previously collected two or three whale 
skeletons, the longest measuring seventy-two 
feet, and also the skeleton of a grampus— the 
**bull dog of the seas," who, whenever he feels 
hungry, takes a bite out of the aide of a whale. 
At the same time a German baron, who 
killed a valuable man in a duel, and was sud- 
denly seized with an intense desire to travel, 
was collecting gorillas in West Africa, all of 
which subsequently found their way to Rooh^ 
ester. In New Zealand, in Australia, in Mon- 
tana, in British Columbia, in Alaska, and 
scores of other places there were resident col- 
lectors and hunters who were in lively cor- 
respondence with Professor Ward, and collect- 
ing for him whatever their respective localities 
yielded which it was worth while for a fimt- 
class scientific museum to have. 
A moose hunter in Maine, who shot far bet^ 
ter than he spelled, killed certain very homoly 
big animals contrary to law, got arrested, ami 
afterward reported the whole matter thus : 
'* friend Ward, i got you too moose, one Bull 
and ful growne Cow. Tha had me up twict 
fur moose, but i noct them hier than a kyte 
boath times. Wil send hides soone." 
At the establishment on College avenue ttiere 
is a constant inpouring of boxes, barrels (;»d 
The First BtjiLDiiJGS of the Ward Estabusumemt. 
