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THAkING of MUSEUM-BUILDERS. 
Jumbo. Mousted at Ward's. 
know it ; and you uaiist meet him when the lec- 
ture is over." 
After the lecture Ward was introduced to 
Professor Agassiz, and invited to visit him at 
his hotel. The direct result of the fifty-six mile 
walk to hear one lecture was that the walker 
went at once to Cambridge, and became a pupil 
of the great Swiss naturalist —the teacher who 
woulti not allow his x^upils to use books, com- 
pelled them to learn by observation, and taught 
them to use the simplest words in their 
scientific work, iustead of polysyllables. 
At Cambridge young Ward and "Charlie 
Wadsworth " became such fast friends that 
ultimately General Wadsworth took the two 
boys to Paris with him, gave Ward a year's 
course of special instruction in the School of 
Mines, and to crown all, afterward gave the 
lacky boys a glorious tiip to Egypt, up the Nile 
to the third cataract, winding up with Suez, 
the Holy Land and Asia Minor. Thus began 
the long series of delightful journeys over the 
face of the earth so dear to the heart of Henry 
A. Ward, from which he will never rest per- 
manently so long as he can climb the steps of a 
car, or cross a gang plank without falling off. 
After the close of the great Egyptian picnic, 
young Ward resumed his studies in Paris. The 
only regular feature about his course was run- 
ning out of money. He would study in the 
School of Mines and the museums until almost 
penniless, when he would drop his books, and 
hasten to the gypsum and chalk quarries of 
Montmartre and Meudon. There he would 
gather a load of good minerals and fossils, pack 
them in his trunk, cross the channel to Lon 
don, and sell them to the British Museum, the 
School of Mine3, or wherever else a buyer could 
be found. 
He was not long finding out that British fos- 
sils and minerals were also salable in Paris, and 
forthwith he tapped the mining regions of Corn- 
wall and Cumberland. Often he returned to 
Paris with quite a large sum of money in his 
pocket, sometimes amounting, he slyly says, to 
as much as $401 Having completed a second 
series of sales, the scientific commercial trav- 
eler would again settle down to his eclectic 
course of study in the School of Mines, Garden 
of Plants, College de France and Sorbonne, and 
study until his depleted treasury obliged him 
to start out, collect more specimens, and again 
take the road. ' 
At Epernay, sixty miles east i»i - '.iris, good 
Madame Cliquot had a large rlheyard which 
produced the very fine brs-^ ' Vif champagne, 
bearing her name. Certain strata of the Paris 
Basin, of the olde .eocene age, cropped out 
with ve* y fine sections on the estate of Madame 
Cliquot, and brought to light certain fossils 
