WARD’S NATURAL SCIENCE BULLETIN. 
7 
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
In the last number of the Bulletin it was 
mentioned that Messrs. Ward and Howell were in 
San Francisco with large cabinets of specimens. 
These cabinets reached that city from their jour- 
ney around the Horn, in good time to meet Prof. 
"Ward on his arrival from Japan. He was joined 
by Mr. Howell, and together they spread out the 
collections in the finest and most central hall in 
the city, which they rented for the purpose. All 
was most carefully and scientifically arranged, 
and the display was handsome and attractive. 
We give the following from the San Francisco 
Bulletin of March 8th : 
THE WARD COLLECTION. 
EXHIBITION OF GEOLOGICAL MONSTERS, FOSSILS, 
MINERALS, SKELETONS, &C. 
The cabinet of geology and natural science 
brought to this city by Professor Henry A. Ward, 
of Rochester, N. Y., was on exhibition in Mer- 
cantile Library Hall yesterday, for inspection by 
the members of the Academy of Sciences and the 
Professors and Regents of the State University 
and their friends. "The object of the exhibition 
is to induce the Academy or University, or both, 
to purchase the collection from Professor Ward. 
The collection includes a large number of actual 
fossils from the different formations all over the 
world, supplemented by copies of the most cele- 
brated and unique specimens in the museums of 
Europe, a well-selected cabinet of minerals gath- 
ered in Europe and America, a collection of rocks 
from all geological formations, including a series of 
polished marbles, a series of relief maps of various 
points of geologic interest, and about forty geol- 
ogic charts, restoring the appearance of the earth’s 
surface at different periods in its geologic history. 
The collection includes about fifteen thousand 
separate specimens, a part of which have not 
been put on exhibition on account of lack of 
space. 
The immense Siberian mammoth first attracts 
the visitor’s attention. It is 16 feet high, meas- 
ures from the end of the tusks to the tail, 26 feet, 
and is covered with hair or a long, brownish fur. 
the next in size is the megatherium, or great fossil 
ground-sloth of South America. Besides these 
there is quite a display of minor monsters, includ- 
ing extinct species of armadillo, turtle, mastodon 
plesiosaurus and ichthyosaurus. There is also an 
interesting archeological collection, giving models 
of the houses or dens of the cliff-dwellers of Col- 
orado and New Mexico. The collection of com- 
parative anatomy includes skeletons of various 
representative birds, beasts, reptiles and fishes. 
The collection of series of invertebrates, sponges, 
corals, shells and crustaceans, is extensive. 
The Professors of the University at a private 
inspection a few days ago, are said to have been 
more than pleased witii the collection, and anx- 
ious to obtain it. One of the Regents, upon 
being approached about the matter, stated that it 
would be impossible for either that institution or 
the Academy of Sciences to purchase it out of 
their own funds. The price asked by Professor 
Ward is $16,000, which is less than half that it 
would cost to make another such collection. The 
exhibition will continue for two or three weeks. 
The display of the cabinet lasted three weeks, 
and was a brilliant success, attracting day after 
day tens of thousands of the citizens. During 
the height of the exhibition the San Francisco 
Evening Gall (March 23d) said : 
Professor Ward’s cabinet is drawing large 
crowds to Mercantile Library Hall. On Satur- 
day last there were present 6,833 visitors, on 
Monday 5,339, and Tuesday 4,992, making a 
total in three days of 17,114 persons who have 
availed themselves of free exhibition of scienti- 
fic specimens. 
It soon became apparent that the citizens of 
San Francisco would not willingly let the great 
cabinet leave their city. The Academy of Sci- 
ences, acting under their President, the well 
known Professor George Davidson, appointed a 
committee to canvass among their friends to ob- 
tain by subscription the sum of $16,000, needed 
to secure the cabinet. This committee had ar- 
ranged its list of names, and was about to start 
in the work, when their hearts were made glad 
by the act of two gentlemen, ex-Governor Leland 
Stanford and Mr. Charles Crocker, who gener- 
ously came forward with their checks for $8,000 
each, and, buying the collection, presented it to 
the Academy of Sciences. This was a happy 
consummation, over which all concerned felt 
joyous and enthusiastic. 
The general satisfaction was heightened by 
further gifts to the Academy, among which was 
the very practical one (made by one gentleman) 
of the payment in advance of two years rent of 
the great ball in which the cabinet stood. Thus 
the Academy was provided with a great cabinet 
and a hall for its display, all within a period of- 
two months’ time. 
And incidentally, it was a relief to Professor 
Ward and Mr. Howell that they had no further 
work nor care in the matter. We have since 
heard through the San Francisco papers that 
Mrs. Mark Hopkins has given to the Academy of 
Sciences the magnificent sum of a million of 
dollars for a grand building for this and their 
other collections. 
The President of their Board of Trustees wrote 
last mont h to Proressor, who prepared and has 
sent to him full drawings for the whole arrange- 
ment of a grand building to be devoted exclu- 
sively to collections of all the Natural Sciences. 
There will be a basement sixteen feet high for a 
lecture-room suited to seat 1,000 people. In the 
rear of this are smaller rooms for unpacking 
boxes and preparing specimens. Above the base- 
ment will lie two large halls, one above the 
other. Each hall is twenty-six feet high, with a 
gallery extending quite around it. The lower 
hall will contain the representatives of inorganic 
nature — Minerals, Rocks, etc., while the upper 
will be devoted to Zoology, in all its depart- 
ments, and Botany. 
The New York Times of July 28th contains 
the following concerning some of the present 
work of our establishment: 
TWO VALUABLE COLLECTIONS. 
THE GIFT OF MESSRS. JESUP AND COLGATE TO 
THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
Arrangements have been completed for furnish- 
ing the American Museum of Natural History 
in Central Park with a complete collection of the 
mammals and birds of North America, and of the 
quadrumana of the world. The mammals and 
birds will be the gift of Mr. Morris K. Jesup, and 
the specimens of the monkey kingdom that of 
Mr. Robert Colgate, both of which gentlemen are 
well known as public-spirited residents of this 
City. Prof. Henry A. W ard, of Rochester, has 
taken the contract to furnish the specimens and 
ship them, mounted in the best manner, to the 
museum. Prof. W ard has a large natural science 
establishment in Rochester, in which is employed 
the year round a force of men skilled in the mys- 
teries of taxidermy, whose workmanship is on 
exhibition in almost every museum in this 
country, including the Smithsonian Institution 
and in the B ritish Museum as well. ‘ ‘ Some years 
ago,” said Prof. W ard last evening, “ a group of 
orang-outangs whicn I had mounted attracted 
considerable attention in the Centred Park Mu- 
seum, where they were on exhibition. Mr. 
Colgate was so well pleased that he suggested the 
idea of securing a representative of every known 
family of the monkey tribe- throughout the world. 
He has agreed to give $7,000 for such a collection. 
Mr. Jesup, who is equally enthusiastic, will pay 
$10,000 for the collection of birds and mammals. 
About 300 monkeys, including, you understand, 
apes, baboons, and lemurs, will comprise this col- 
lection, while the Jesup collection will number 
600 or 700 specimens. About three years will be 
required to fill these two orders, from my own 
stock as well as through agents and correspond- 
ents in various parts of the world. I can make 
up the Colgate collection without going abroad 
myself. As fast as the skins are received at the 
Rochester establishment they will be mounted, 
and a shipment of the stuffed animals will be 
made to the museum, say once in every six weeks, 
until the collection is complete. 
The above article is generally correct in its 
statements and detail. The collection of Quad- 
rumana of the world we have had in mind for 
some time past, and have been getting in material 
for it from many countries. In Prof. Ward’s 
late trip through the Malay Archipelago, he col 
lected many fine monkeys as well as a few Gib- 
bons and Apes. These are now here, and add 
quite a feature to the array in our Museum of 
stuffed specimens of “ our poor relations.” Until 
the whole great series is complete, we expect to 
have our taxidermal tables ever occupied by some 
long prehensile-tailed Monkey from South Ameri- 
ca, some Baboon from Abysinia, Ape from West 
Africa or Asia, or Lemur from Madagascar. We 
welcome them all in from their native forests, 
and give them the finest of mountings and pedest- 
als and branches on which to attitudinize in their 
many and wonderful travesties of the human 
animal. 
The collection of American mammals and 
birds is in one sense an easy matter, and in 
another it is quite a formidable undertaking. 
Many species of our terrestrial fauna are so 
abundant in the states or regions which they 
inhabit that to get them involves little difficulty. 
But there are others which (like the Musk Ox at 
the Arctic zone or many obscure Rodents of our 
Western territories and the Mexican frontier) are 
so difficult, either from the conditions of the 
country or from their sparse distribution, that 
it almost needs a special expedition to collect 
them. Other marine forms, both from the At- 
lantic and Pacific, are only obtainable, as it 
were, by accident. Who, for instance, will ob- 
tain for us a skin of the Narwhal ( Monodon 
monoceros )? We obtained this rare sea monster 
some five years ago — an adult male, with its 
horn over six feet long. We furnished it to the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Cambridge. 
We believe that there is but one other stuffed 
specimen of this species in any museum in the 
world. We have not only to furnish this ceta- 
cean to the Central Park Museum, but many 
others not easily caught or indeed often seen. 
And some of the Pinnepedia are almost equally 
rare. We have just paid $100 for the skin of 
one small Seal ( Histriphoca equestris), which is, 
we understand, the fourth individual of its spe- 
cies which has ever been known to have been 
taken on our Alaska coast, where it belongs. 
The Smithsonian Institute has thus far, we be- 
lieve, had the only mounted specimen in exist- 
ence. Still, with all these difficulties, we expect 
to complete in due time this extensive order for 
the American Museum of Natural History. 
