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WARD’S NATURAL SCIENCE BULLETIN 
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PUBLISHED QUARTERLY 
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WARD S NATURAL SCIENCE ESTABLISHMENT. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS : 
BAKER, A. B.,— Invertebrate Zofllog'y, OSlogy. 
HENSHAW, A. N.— Herpetology, etc. 
HORNADAY, WM.T.,— Zoology, Taxidermy and Col- 
lecting. 
HOWELL, EDWIN E. — Geology, Mineralogy and 
Palaeontology. 
LUCAS, FREDERIC A., — Vert. Zoology, Osteology. 
PRESTON, H. L., — Mineralogy and Conchology. 
STAEBNER, F. W., — Mineralogy and Petrography. 
WARD, HENRY A. -Miscellaneous. 
WEBSTER, FREDERIC S., — Ornithology. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
We present to our readers herewith 
number four of the Bulletin, and trust 
that in it each may find something of 
interest and profit. From the vast quan- 
tity of material which has come to us 
daring the past few months, and is still 
crowding in, we have hardly known just 
what to select to be brought before our 
readers. All is interesting, much is rare 
and strange, and we find difficulty in 
choosing from the very abundance of the 
material on hand. Brilliant minerals, deli- 
cate corals, the many quaint and curious 
forms of marine life, graceful birds, and 
odd mammals, all seem worthy of notice; 
hut our space will not permit, and we can 
only say to our friends who wish to know 
all about our acquisitions, “Come and see.” 
We have endeavored to make the Bul- 
letin of practical value to the working- 
naturalist, and at the same time of inter- 
est to the general reader. Of our success 
in this we can judge only from the opin- 
ions of our readers. We are glad to see 
that the paper is meeting with marked 
approval, and v/e are much pleased with 
the many expressions of hearty apprecia- 
tion with which it has been received. 
McGILL UNIVERSITY, 
More than usual attention is being directed to this institution at the present time, from the fact 
that the meeting of the A. A. A. S. is to be held there this year. Dr. J. W. Dawson, Principal of the 
University, is also President of the Association, and everything promises an unusually large and 
interesting meeting. Tins institution was founded under bequest of the Hon. James McGill, and 
erected into a university by Royal charter, in 1821. Under wise management and through the gifts 
of other generous friends of education, as well as government aid, the University has continued to 
grow, until it occupies a prominent position among the educational institutions of the new world. 
The number of students last year in the departments of Arts, Applied Science, Law and Medicine, 
was 381; and in the affiliated colleges, normal and model schools, 545, making the total number of 
persons receiving educational benefits from the University, over 900, exclusive of the four affiliated 
theological colleges. The latest and most important addition to the University is the Peter Redpath 
Museum, which will be formally opened on the evening of August 25th, when President Dawson 
holds a reception in the building, which stands in front and a little to the left of those shown in the 
above cut. 
Principal Dawson with his assistants is now busily engaged arranging the collections of the 
College — which have grown under his care from a single specimen to their present proportions— in 
the new museum building, and hope to have everything in perfect order by the meeting of the- 
American Association, August 23d. The collections have been made with special reference to their 
usefulness in the college work, and are consequently very symmetrical; unusual completeness will, 
however, be noticed in the collection of fossil botany, and the collection of Eozoon stands unrivalled, 
as might be expected by anyone familiar with Dr. Dawson’s published works. We have been 
called upon at various times for material for this museum, and have furnished series of Skeletons, 
Invertebrates, Geological Models, Fossils and casts of Fossils, and have recently added some large 
objects, including a mounted skeleton of the Megatherium to the center of the new Geological Hall. 
Our total furnishings amount to about $2,000. 
We again have to make apology for 
delay in bringing out this number. But 
the press of work upon us since Professor 
returned from his long tour has been 
something prodigious. Working all day 
at unpacking, cleaning up, determining, 
labelling and listing specimens of all 
kinds, is not conducive to that mental 
repose and energy which is requisite for 
getting np articles in our evenings for the 
columns of the Bulletin. Furthermore, 
N. B. — The front half of the single story building in the center of the cut (with the man on the 
steps) is to be used during the meeting of the Association for a general lounging room, and has also 
been kindly given by Dr. Dawson to Messrs. Ward and Howell for a display of Minerals, Rocks, 
Fossils, Skeletons, and other specimens from Ward’s Natural Science Establishment. 
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC. 
This Institution is one of the most flourishing and best known, as it is the oldest, of the colleges 
of the Pacific Slope. It is located in the Santa Clara valley, about 40 miles south of San Francisco, 
midway between the two towns of Santa Clara and San Jose. Nothing can exceed the delightful 
and Arcadian beauty of the country around. The buildings are in a grove, with the residences of 
the Faculty grouped around them. The President is Rev. C. C. Stratton, D. D., sustained by a 
corps of thirteen teachers. Among these, Prof. T. C. George has the department of Natural Sci- 
ence. He is enthusiastic in his work, and has built up a fine cabinet of specimens in various 
departments of Nature. We have lately added to the museum a series of our casts of celebrated 
fossils, and of anatomical models, for the sum of about $1,200. 
we have had several new catalogues to 
make, with all the searching of authors, 
copying of names and reading of “proof” 
which is involved in that work. But we 
are again ready to promise better things, 
and to pledge our word to our readers that 
we will be more prompt next time. 
COLLECTIONS SOLD. 
We have noticed above, two of the museums to which we have furnished important collections 
since our last issue. 
On page 7 we notice two other museums for which we have lately done, or engaged to do, still 
more. The aggregate of the four collections is just $36,000. 
We propose to notice in our Bulletin any collection as we may make it for an Institution, when 
the same is for a sum of $ 1,000 0 r over. We shall illustrate by a cut of the museum building when 
such (wood cut or electrotype) is supplied to us. It will please us to thus bring before the public 
the Institution thus enriched, and our own part in the matter. 
