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THA KING OF MUSEUM-BUILDERS. 
bemuse they, too, are 
tions of birds' eggs 
shells, I suppose. »y 
The department of human aufttomy has lately 
risen to high rank in this lAigue institution, 
and now occupies an entire building. The de- 
partment of mineralogy is the oldest of all, 
and occupies a separate group of buildings as 
a tenant-in common with the departments of 
geology (rocks and meteorites) and paleontology 
(fossils and restorations). Under the latter 
belong the wonderful series of casts of cele- 
brated fossils, without which no scientific 
museum can be complete. A museum can 
exist without money; it can survive without a 
man with a closely trimmed grey beard, rather 
scanty gray hair, keen, piercing gray eyes, old- 
fashioned gold spectacles, a bigleathei satchel^ 
and a seat full of letters, pamphlets and books, 
it will surely be Henry A. Ward, A. M.. F. 
G. S., etc. 
His height is five feet eight, and at present 
his weight is 173 pounds. If one could examine 
him, analytically, it would be found that inter- 
nally he is composed of raw-hide, whale-bone 
and asbestos; for surely no ordinary human 
materials could for forty-five years so success- 
fully withstand the bad cooks, bad food ana 
bad drinks that have necessarily been encoun- 
Oroup or Orano-Utanb, From the Ward Establishment. 
good curator, and in spite of a bad one : but 
Ward's casts of fossils it must have. Shall the 
museums of Europe boast sole possession of 
the megatherinm, the glyptodon, the dino- 
therium, or the Plesiosanrns Cramptoni? 
Thanks to the Rochester man- who makes mu- 
seums, every American student may have all 
these in his own study if he chooses to do 8o, 
and his floor is strong enough. 
Professor Ward's history and personalis is 
as strange as his profession. 
The next time you are travelihg by rail- 
not in the smoking-car, however, for he never 
uaea tobacco — and see a atndious, preoccupied 
tered by any one who has, so recklessly of self, 
traveled all over creation. 
On March 9. 1834, Professor Ward was bom 
on Bay street, in RocheRter. His mother was 
a most exemplary woman, hut rigid and even 
pui'itanical regarding religious observances, 
espeoially the observance of the Sabbath. 
At ten years of age, master ner' v failed to 
harmonize with his parental 'ettVironment. 
Having providetl himself with a little brass 
pistol, at a total cost of seventy-five cents, •♦e 
ran away from home, boldly struck out f ^i 
Chicago, and after long weeks of walkiu..; aud 
riding, he actually reached hia gofJ. It -was 
