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that were then little known, and valuable. If 
Professor Ward ever sets up a new coat of arms 
for his posterity, surely it should contain some- 
where the figure of a long, trumpet-shaped 
shell of t\\Q genus Cerithium {O. giganteum), on 
a carpet-bag, couchant. 
Thanks to the conciliating diplomacy that 
every collector must possess to be successful, 
and to the generous good nature of Madame 
and her manager, the young American who 
spoke such excellent French was given a cinch 
on the fossils underlying a portion of that 
Ward had extende^Jiis field of commercial 
activity over the wole of it. "I never trav- 
eled third class when I could go fourth," said 
the man of manyfeps, '*but I went all over 
Europe, selling specimens to museums, and 
collecting to sell elsewhere. I went to Brus- 
sels, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Berlin and Vienna 
repeatedly, and finally covered Sweden, Russia 
and Spain. To me the stupidity of those 
European museum men about gathering speci- 
mens from other countries than their own, 
seemed really curious, and I soon found not 
Pkof. ^^ auiv> Home on Coi.t.ege Avenue. 
estate, and told to work his will. He hired 
workmen at forty cents per day, and for sev- 
eral summers he mined and counter-mined his 
concession so successfully that many score of 
those curious fossils (the Cerithium) now re- 
pose in British and continental museums, each 
having yie?' a benefit to the purveyor of 
from $5 to |10. Nature kindly made them 
just small enc to pack successfully in a 
trunk, and also n^^..'- enough to carry a 
satchel when necessary. 
Notwithstanding the noise it makes, Europe 
is a small country ; and in a very short time 
only pleasure but profit in supplying their 
wants. There is a certain spice of excitement 
and exhilaration in finding a specimen that a 
certain man desires very much, and in taking 
it to him.'* 
Thus was developed the germ of Ward's 
natiaral science establishment. The history of 
that strange and unique institution really dates 
back to the Paris basin, and the Cerithium 
quarry in the vineyard of Madame Cliquot. 
The making of the great Ward cabinet of min- 
erals, and its purchase for $30,000 by means 
of a popular subscription for the University of 
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