WARD’S NATURAL SCIENCE BULLETIN. 
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LIST OF QUADRUMANA, 
(Apes, Monheys, Etc.) 
As Skins, Stuffed Specimens, Skeletons and Skulls now on 
hand and for sale at the Establishment. 
FRICKS. 
Troglodytes gorilla (Gorilla), male, 5ft. Gin. _ W. Africa. 
“ m'rrpr ( Ghirn nan zap.V male. Gab 
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niger (Chimpanzee), male, Gaboon, Africa, 
female, 
young, 
Simia Wurmbii (Orang Outan), Borneo, 
“ satyrus “ “ male, 
“ “ “ “ female, “ 
Hylobates lar (Gibbon), India, 
“ leuciscus (Silvery Gibbon), Borneo, 
Nasalis larvatus (Nose Monkey), Borneo, 
Semnopithecus cucullatus (Langur), S. W. India, 
“ entellus (Entellus Monkey), _S. India, 
“ leucoprymnus, Ceylon, 
“ sp. ? Borneo, 
Cercopitbecus rnfoviridis, W. Africa, 
“ sabceus (Green Monkey), W. Africa, 
“ ruber (Patas Mon key), Senegal, 
Cercocebuscollaris(White-collaredMangabey)W. Africa, 
“ fuliginosus (Sooty Maugabey),- _ W. Africa, 
Macacus pileatus (Capped Macaque), Bornpo, 
“ nemestrinns (Pig-tailed Macaque),. -Borneo, 
“ cynomulgus, Borneo, 
“ Assamensis, Malay Penin, 
“ rhesus (Lion Monkey), India, 
Inuus ecaudatus (Barbary Ape), N. Africa, 
Cynopithecus niger (Black Macaque), Philippines, 
Cynocephalus porcarius (Chacma), S. Africa, 
“ papio, undersized, Africa, 
Mycetes seniculus (Golden Howler), Venezuela, 
. “ palliatus (Mantled Howler), Venezuela, 
Ateles paniscus (Coaita), Brazil, 
“ Bartletti, Orinoco, 
“ hybridus (Brown Spider Monkey),.. Brazil 
Chrysothrix entomophagus (Blackheaded Teetee), 
Demarara, 
Pithecia leucocephala (Black Yarkee), Venezuela, 
“ monachus (Yarkee), Brazil, 
Leontopithecus rosalia (Marikina), Brazil, 
Hapale CEdipus (Pinche), Brazil, 
GMipus titi (Pinche), Brazil, 
“ Geoffroyi, Panama, 
Varecia varia (Ruffed Lemur), Madagascar, 
Lemur catta (Ring-tailed Lemur), .Madagascar, 
“ albifrons, Madagascar, 
“ xanthomystax, Madagascar, 
Nycticebus tardigradus (Slow Lemur), Borneo, 
Galago senegalensis, .... W. Africa, 
Propithecus diadema, Madagascar, 
Loris gracilis (Slender Lemur), S. W. India, 
Tarsius spectrum (Tarsier), Borneo, 
Callithrix cuprea,.. Ecuador, 
SKIN. 
Stuffed Skin. 
SKELETON. 
SKULL 
$ 
$ 
$ 325. 
225. 
200. 
175. 
140. 
45. 
100-150 
80-275 
150-250 
65-130 
120-250 
100-200 
10-15 
35-90 
■ 75-165 
22. 
35. 
30. 
14-20 
30-35 
28. 
34-40 
50-65 
45. 
12-14 
20-24 
28. 
3.50. 
12. 
22. 
28. 
3.50. 
9. 
18. 
20. 
3. 
18. 
20. 
7. 
18. 
12 . 
2z. 
12. 
24. 
18. 
26. 
7-9 
16-19 
3.50. 
7. 
16. 
3.50. 
7. 
16. 
3.50. 
35. 
28. 
30-35 
40. 
12. 
26. 
9-12 
25. 
28. 
3.50. 
18. 
30. 
18. 
35. 
10. 
’22. 
14. 
6-12 
15-22 
9. 
18. 
14. 
3.50. 
9. 
12. 
7. 
14. 
12. 
22. 
35. 
30. 
4. 
15. 
28. 
16. 
30. 
16. 
30. 
7. 
14. 
16. 
15. 
3. 
9. 
2. 
14. 
7. 
15. 
A BIBLICAL MUSEUM. 
The Rochester Theological Seminary has made 
a new departure by establishing for itself a col- 
lection of animals and other natural history 
specimens, such as figure prominently in Bible 
history. Since this is the first step which has 
been taken in this direction, so far as we are 
aware, and is likely to lead to similar efforts on 
the part of other institutions of the same kind, 
it is of special interest. We have already sup- 
plied the Seminary with a series of stuffed ani- 
mals, besides _ a large number of Egyptian and 
Syrian antiquities, including a mummy, mummy 
coffins, copy of Rosetta stone, &c. also a 
series of Minerals, Rocks and Fossils from 
Egypt, Arabia and Palestine. To these collec- 
tions will be added from time to time, any 
specimens which will aid in giving a clear un- 
derstanding of the Bible. 
In this connection we would mention that the 
Chautauqua Sunday School Assembly is erecting 
a new Museum building and has begun to gather 
material for an Archeological Museum. We 
were visited a few weeks ago by Rev. Dr. Vin- 
cent and Rev. Dr. Kittredge, who purchased for 
the museum a number of archeological specimens, 
including copies of Winged Bull and Winged 
Lion from Ninevah; also copies of other Assyr- 
ian figures with inscriptions in the cuneiform 
characters, a cast of the “Rosetta Stone,” &c., 
originals of which are in the British Museum. 
These with other specimens will be sent to the 
museum next month, perhaps in time for the 
opening session of the Assembly. 
Description of a Tropical Forest. 
The Baron Hugo Von Koppenfels, in an inter- 
esting letter from West Africa to Professor Ward, 
for whom he is now collecting gorillas and chim- 
panzee, gives the following graphic description 
of the damp tropical forests, the miasmata from 
the swamps and their influence upon the traveler. 
Every one who has traveled in an equatorial for- 
est will instantly recognize the truthfulness of 
this pen picture. This letter will be given in de- 
tail in the June number of the AmericanNaturalist. 
“No writer can give a just description of a 
primitive tropical forest. It is too grand and 
diversified, but with all its exterior splendor and 
beauty it is a deceitful and dangerous thing. 
Woe to the inexperienced man who essays to 
penetrate into its interior. He soon becomes 
involved in a chaos of roots, of interlacing 
lianas, of fallen trunks covered with a tangled 
growth of thorny underbrush, all growing from 
a dank and swampy soil. Here he breathes a 
stagnant, musty, green house air, which de- 
presses the spirits and deadens the energies. 
Added to this there is a deep, gloomy silence, 
which broods over this place of most luxuriant 
growth and rapid decay. Although these myste- 
rious shadows hide an active and varied animal 
life, the ear is seldom struck by a sound of any 
kind. Only now and then the falling of a fruit 
or a dry branch breaks the oppressive stillness. 
Early in the morning and in the short evening 
twilight of the tropics some birds are heard to 
herald the advent or departure of the day. Such 
a forest is a subject of unending study, and only 
he whom nature has endowed with peculiar 
tastes and acute senses can, with use and experi- 
ence, become familiar with its varied constituents, 
its changing phases and its silent language. Woe 
to the novice who without guide wanders into 
its recesses, where death lurks for him. In most 
cases he is soon hopelessly lost; and when weary 
and despairing he throws himself on the ground 
to rest, swarms of ants and other insects soon 
sting him into movement again. Almost no 
wholesome food is attainable in these forest 
depths, and should the traveler not die of star- 
vation or fall a victim to violent, acute fever, 
the poisonous atmosphere slowly acting on the 
system paralyzes the digestion, corrupts the 
blood, and produces irritating eruptions of the 
skin, and frequently malignant ulcers. Such is 
the primitive forest on the alluvial bottoms of the 
rivers of tropical Africa. It has been represented 
as a paradise, and poetical descriptions drawn from 
the imagination have inspired in many a longing 
desire to penetrate its mysteries. One must, 
however, do as I have done, wander lost and 
alone for days together enduring terrible suffer- 
ing and constant fear of death, before he can 
form for himself a true image of the real trop- 
ical primeval forest.” 
Travelers who have visited Naples will be 
pleased to know that this establishment has just 
received seventeen complete skeletons “ in the 
rough,” and thirteen skulls of Italians who lately 
flourished under the shadow of Vesuvius. The 
majority of these relics undoubtedly belonged to 
beggars once, and we fondly believe the remain- 
der represent some of the “guides” who in 1876- 
77 infested the sides of Vesuvius and Naples 
generally, and made a profession of badgering 
and bullying travelers. It is interesting to note 
that in all the skulls, thirty in number, the 
teeth are all even, well formed and in an unus- 
ually perfect state of preservation, like the teeth 
of all other animals of a predatory nature. 
w. T. H. 
We cordially endorse the above sentiments and 
think that a series of about 15,000 selected skel- 
etons would render a visit to Naples and vicinity 
a very pleasurable event. f. a. l. 
On one of Prof. Ward’s trips up the Nile he 
wished to inquire of a native if any crocodiles 
were found in the vicinity, and not having a 
large acquaintance with the language, he drew 
a picture of the animal to show what he wished. 
After carefully studying the drawing for some 
time in order, as the Professor thought, to make 
sure of the species, the Egyptian replied in a 
confidant tone, “A boat, a boat.” 
