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WARD’S NATURAL SCIENCE BULLETIN. 
"W .A-ILD’S 
afttral Same* fSttlLetin. 
PUBLISHED AT 
WARD’S NATURAL SCIENCE ESTABLISHMENT, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS: 
BAKER, A. B.,— Invertebrate Zoology, Ohlogy. 
HORNADAY, ¥M. T.,— Zoology, Taxidermy and Col- 
lecting. 
HOWELL, EDWIN E., A. M.— Gleology, Mineralogy 
and Paleontology. 
LUCAS, FREDERIC A.,— Vert. Zoology, Osteology. 
STJ3BNER, F. W.,— Mineralogy and Chemistry. 
WEBSTER, FREDERIC S., -Ornithology. 
We purpose to issue one or two more numbers of 
the Bulletin this year, which will be sent free. 
Next year the Bulletin will be issued regularly with 
a subscription price, the amount of which will be 
stated hereafter. 
Historical Sketch. 
As a brief historical sketch of our Establish- 
ment may be ©f interest to the readers of this, 
its first Bulletin, we will give a few notes con- 
cerning its commencement and growth. 
A little more than twenty years ago, while 
preparing the palaeontological cabinet for Roch- 
ester University, Prof. Ward found that in order 
to complete the series, it was necessary to procure 
casts of a large number of typical fossils, origi- 
nals of which could not be obtained. In fact, it 
was with great difficulty that he obtained per- 
mission to make casts of them, owing to the 
jealousy and bigotry of the institutions in whose 
possession they were. When it was known that 
Prof. Ward had moulds of these unique speci- 
mens, calls for casts began to be received from 
various scientific institutions, which led him to 
increase the number of casts and fill out a com- 
plete series of Casts of Celebrated Fossils. 
A cabinet of minerals was prepared at the 
same time with the palaeontological cabinet, and 
when both were completed Prof. Ward was still 
in possession of a large quantity of fine fossils 
and minerals. These were soon largely added 
to, as Prof. Ward’s previous experience gave him 
the best of advantages for procuring this kind of 
material. From these collections cabinets were 
furnished to various colleges, and in this way 
a business of considerable importance was de- 
veloped. 
Prof. Ward now determined to build up a 
complete Natural Science Establishment, a place 
where the naturalists and teachers of this country 
could obtain specimens in all departments of 
Natural History. The number of buildings tvas 
increased, skilled workmen — osteologists and tax- 
idermists — were obtained from the museums of 
Europe, and the business has steadily grown till 
it now occupies fifteen buildings and regularly 
employs about twenty men. Among the latter 
are not only skilled workmen, but also men of 
good scientific knowledge, who have found here 
an opportunity for practical study not elsewhere 
afforded. In fact, this Establishment has itself 
been to a considerable extent an educational 
institution. Much of the work to be done re- 
quires careful research, together with thorough 
examination and comparison of the specimens. 
In this way some of those who have been con- 
nected with it have developed into well trained 
scientific men, an,d several have occupied promi- 
nent positions among the scientists of our country. 
The late Prof. James Orton was with Prof. 
Ward in the early days of the Establishment, 
and left here to take the chair of Zoology at 
Yassar College, which position he occupied till 
his death. 
Mr. G. K. Gilbert, who came here immediately 
after his graduation from college, and was for 
several years connected with the Establishment, 
in 1869 accepted a position on the Ohio Geologi- 
cal Survey, and is now Geologist in charge of 
the Great Basin division of the United States 
Survey. 
Prof. Franklin C. Hill, who began his palaeon- 
tological studies here, is now Curator of the E. 
M. Museum, Princeton College, and lecturer on 
palaeontology. 
Dr. W. S. Barnard, now Prof, of Zoology in 
Cornell University, during his stay here contrib- 
uted largely to the building up of our invertebrate 
department. 
Mr. Geo. A. Wild came here from the Illinois 
Industrial University, and after remaining about 
two years returned to that institution as Curator. 
He is now studying with Prof. Huxley in the 
Science Schools of London. 
Prof. W. B. Barrows, after spending several 
years here, accepted the Professorship of Natural 
Sciences in the College of Concepcion del Uru- 
guay, Argentine Republic, where he has been 
for the past two years. 
Mr. Edwin E. Howell came to Prof. Ward in 
1864 and remained till 1872, when he was ap- 
pointed Geologist on the United States Survey. 
Leaving the survey in 1876, he returned and 
entered into partnership with Prof. Ward in the 
geological department, and in January of the 
present year lie took an equal interest in casts 
also; so that at the present time Ward & Howell 
control all which pertains to Geology and Miner- 
alogy, while Zoology in all its different branches 
remains under the management of Prof. Ward 
as before. 
The plan of this Establishment has always 
been to put within reach of American naturalists 
not only natural history material of every 
description, but especially such specimens as 
from their typical character are particularly 
adapted for educational purposes. The idea 
carried out here was, that quality of specimens 
rather than quantity should be the first consider- 
ation ; that a small series of type forms, illustrat- 
ing the fundamental principles of the science, 
was of far greater educational value than a much 
larger number of specimens gathered at random. 
This principle is coming to be more fully recog- 
nized, and the time is fast approaching when a 
museum of natural history will no longer con- 
tain merely a collection of curiosities and rare 
specimens, but systematically arranged series 
illustrative of the chief divisions of the animal, 
vegetal and mineral kingdoms. 
CATALOGUES 
of Natural History Specimens now on hand 
and for sale: 
ZW~ Catalogues will be sent gratis to teachers re- 
questing them, with the intent expressed to purchase 
specimens. Price. 
Minerals — 60 pages, .20 
Special Collection of Minerals — 40 pages, _ . .10 
Lithology and Geology— 52 pages, .20 
Special Lithological Collection — 25 pp.,-- .10 
Collection of New York State Rocks, 44 
pages, 20 
*Casts of Fossils — 228 pages; 284 wood cuts, $1.25 
School Series of Casts— 60 pages; 68 wood 
cuts, .20 
Academy Series of Casts — 86 pages; 130 
wood cuts,. - .30 
College Series of Casts— 144 pages, .75 
Osteology — 64 pages, .25 
Special Series of Skeletons, for Union 
Schools, 40 pages, ----- .25 
Skins and Mounted Specimens (with Alco- 
holic Specimens) — 104 pages, .40 
North American Birds’ Eggs — 12 pages, .. .10 
Foreign Birds’ Eggs— 12 pages, .10 
Invertebrates— 1 12 pages; 121 wood cuts, . .50 
Human Skeletons and Anatomical Prepar- 
ations — 24 pages, .15 
Glass Models of Invertebrates— 24 pages,- .10 
Restoration of Mammoth— 42 pages, .15 
Notice of Megatherium Cuvieri— 34 pages; 
Illustrated, -50 
* This Catalogue is now out of print, but a new 
edition will shortly appear. 
For any of the above, address, 
Prof. HENRY A. WARD, A. M., 
No. 2. College Ave., 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Letters concerning Minerals, Rocks and Fossils, I 
Address to WARD & HOWELL. f 
Foreign Tours for the Establishment. 
None but our most intimate friends know 
what an amount of foreign travel has been 
absolutely required to bring the various de- 
partments of the Establishment up to their 
present state of completeness, and is still neces- 
sary to maintain their standing from year to 
year. While we have done all that could possi- 
bly be accomplished in foreign fields through 
correspondents and resident collectors, it has 
often been found quite impossible to secure the 
desiderata most sought for- by the scientific 
world, without some member of the Establish- 
ment going in search of it. The rarest and the 
most valuable objects enumerated in our various 
catalogues, may be regarded as the direct results 
of visits made to foreign countries by Prof. 
Ward or his assistants. 
A history of the collecting tours which have 
been made for the Establishment during the last 
eight years would fill volumes. The realm of 
nature has been fairly ransacked for the story of 
her works as found in natural objects, and upon 
nearly all occasions it has been found necessary 
to forego systematic investigation in the field 
for the sake of making collections, leaving all 
such critical examination of specimens to be 
done at the Establishment. The ambition of its 
founder has been to place the greatest possible 
number of well selected typical specimens before 
the greatest possible number of intelligent people. 
His aim has been to render scientific material 
of every description accessible to students and 
investigators, and to this end the efforts of him- 
self and his corps of assistants have been steadily 
directed. 
A record of the foreign collecting tours which 
have been made for the Establishment during 
the later years of its existence may be of some 
interest to its friends and patrons. To go back 
no farther than 1874 we find that in that year 
Prof. Ward made a four months’ tour to the 
Bahama Islands and Florida; in 1875 he visited 
Europe generally; in 1876-7 his tour embraced 
Europe, Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea as far 
as Massowali. In 1878-9 he visited Europe, the 
West Indies and British Guiana. In 1880 he 
again went to Europe/collected at the famous 
sulphur localities in Sicily and the Lipari Isles, 
and for the first time visited Tunis and Tripoli. 
In 1878-9, Henry L. Ward, son of the Profes- 
sor, collected in the Leeward Islands, W. I., 
was joined by his father at Antigua and with 
him visited Demarara and Cuba. 
Mr. IJornaday was first sent abroad to collect 
for the Establishment in 1874, during which and 
the year following he collected in Cuba and Flor- 
ida. In 1876, accompanied by Mr. C. E. Jackson, 
of Wisconsin, he visited the West Indies, Ven- 
ezuela, British and Dutch Guiana. In October, 
1876 Mr. Hornaday was sent upon the most 
extended collecting expedition which has yet 
been made for the Establishment, embracing 
work in Europe, Egypt, India generally, Ceylon, 
the Straits Settlements, Borneo, and around the 
world. 
For many years Professor Ward has desired to 
visit Australia and the far East, and at last the 
general revival of business and the prosperous 
condition of the Establishment -has enabled him 
to consummate his long-cherished plan. He 
sailed from San Francisco on Feb. 14th, and 
reached Aukland on March 9th. After spending 
a month in New Zealand he proceeded to Sid- 
ney, and is probably now attending the Interna- 
tional Exposition at Melbourne, in which the 
Establishment is represented by a series of col- 
lections. 
It is Professor Ward’s intention to spend three 
or four months in Australia, after which he will 
very probably visit Java and Amboyna, Singa- 
pore, China and Japan. It is quite possible his 
travels may extend to Hindustan, and his return 
is not expected until late in Autumn. In due 
course of time we may expect important and 
extensive additions to the Australian fauna now 
in our possession. 
