Vol. II, No. 1. 
Price, 50 cents per Year. 
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, JANUARY 1, 1883. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
CATALOGUES 
THE POLYGLOTWOGGLE. 
PAGE. 
Catalogues of Natural History Specimens, 1 
The Polyglotwoggle, 1 
Taxidermists Wanted, 1 
New Skin Catalogue, 1 
List of Contributors, _ 2 
Editorial Notes, 2 
The Century Article, . 2 
The Society of American Taxidermists, 2 
Skinning Birds Alive, __ 2 
Pseudomorphs, 3 
Mineralogy — New Minerals, 3 
Systematic Collections, . . 3 
Physical and Structural Series, 4 
The Cambridge Moas; with cut of group sent 
from Rochester, 4 
The Moa at Home, 4 
Geology, 5 
“ Hell Fire Rock,” 5 
The Mocs Meteorite, 5 
Palaeontology, 6 
Casts of Fossils, 6 
Achaeology and Ethnology, 6 
The Moa (continued); with cut of neck-skin 
and feathers, 7 
Iowa College Museum, § 
Phosphorescent Limestone, 8 
Cornell University, 8 
Vertebrate Fossils of Dakota and the “Bod 
Lands.”— Mr. Garman’s Collections, 8 
Nature’s Surgery,.. 9 
Our Walruses; with cut of group furnished to 
American Museum of Natural History, 9 
Malformed Tusks of Wild Boars, 9 
Specimens in Comparative Osteology, 10 
Price List of Human Skeletons, 10 
Human Skeletons, 10 
A New Catalogue, 10 
Our Osteological Work-Room,.. 11 
“ “ Work, 11 
Osteology (continued), 12 
A Group of Hogs, 12 
Bulletin of the Nuttall Club, 12 
A Notable Book on Birds, 12 
Our Taxidermal Work-Room, 13 
Taxidermy at Home, ^ 13 
Taxidermy (concluded), 14 
Monkey Bear, ... _ 14 
List of Skins of Mammals, 15 
General View of the Establishment, 16 
of Natural, History Specimens now on hand 
and for sale. 
£a? = These Catalogues are not mere price lists, but 
contain much interesting matter, and as they are 
intended to be free to our clients, the money paid for 
them will be credited on the first order. To teachers 
expressing an intent soon to purchase specimens, they 
will be sent gratis. 
Minerals — 60 pages, $ 20 
Special Collection of Minerals — 40 pages, .. 10 
Lithology and Geology — 52 pages, ... 20 
Special Lithological Collection — 25 pages, . 10 
Collection of New York State Rocks — 44 
pages, 20 
Casts of Fossils — 228 pp. ; 284 wood cuts, . . 1 25 
School Series of Casts — 60 pages ; 68 wood 
cuts, 20 
Academy Series of Casts— 68 pages; 130 
wood cuts, 20 
College Series of Casts — 144 pages, 75 
Osteology — 64 pages, 25 
Skins and Mounted Specimens — 142 pages, 30 
North American Birds’ Eggs — 12 pages,. .. 10 
Foreign Birds’ Eggs — 14 pages, 10 
Invertebrates— 112 pages; 121 wood cuts,. . 50 
Human Skeletons and Anatomical Prepara- 
tions — 24 pages, 15 
Glass Models of Invertebrates — 24 pages, .. 10 
Restoration of Mammoth — 42 pages; illus- 
trated, 15 
Notice of Megatherium Cuvieri — 34 pages; 
Illustrated, 50 
For any of the above, address 
Prof. HENRY A. WARD, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Letters concerning Minerals, Rocks and Fossils, 
Address to WARD & HOWELL. 
NEW SKIN CATALOGUE. 
We have lately issued a new Catalogue of Skins 
and Mounted Specimens, including Mammals, 
Birds, Reptiles and Fishes. This is much fuller 
than our former catalogue, and gives the results 
of some ten years of careful and assiduous col- 
lecting from all parts of the world. We can 
offer to our clients a choice of representative 
forms throughout the entire range of vertebrate 
animals, giving opportunities for selecting sys- 
tematic series such as have never before been 
possible in this country. The catalogue also 
offers great advantages for the formation of 
faunal collections, the New Zealand, Australian 
and Eastern Asiatic fauna especially being very 
fully represented. 
The skins have largely been prepared by our 
own collectors, or handled over at the Establish- 
ment. The mounted specimens are prepared 
with. great care, and a strict adherence to nature. 
Price of catalogue, 30 cents. 
It lias long- been my pleasure to scan 
The progressions of life on the earth ; 
And now I will tell, if I possibly can, 
In the plainest of English, the story how man 
From the Polyglotwoggle had birth. 
For I am a scientist true, 
With learning’s most classical lingo. 
When I found an old tooth, which to science was new, 
I restored the whole beast, hoof and horn and tail too, 
And I called it the Hip-pip-o-jing-o ; 
Which means— but no matter. It’s Greek. 
Thus I won the Academy roses. 
And the Royal Society asked me to seek 
A few fossil remains which would aid me to speak 
On the Genesis theme against Moses. 
So I sought, and I found a huge fossil, 
In the Bad lands of Western Dakota, 
With a tail like a comet, a head most colossal, 
And forty-two tongues sticking- fast to its jaw still: 
So I called it, in Greek, Polyglota ; 
Which means many-tongued ; and moreover, 
Since its eye had the form of a goggle, 
While its polliwoy tail proved the beast a sea-rover, 
In order both characteristics to cover, 
I called it the Polyglotwoggle. 
When the sea rolled its fathomless billows 
Across the broad plains of Nebraska; 
When around the North Pole grew bananas and 
willows, 
And mastodons fought with the great armadillos 
For the pineapples grown in Alaska; 
When the Glyptodon came to the ocean, 
The Plesiosaurus to ogle, 
But could find not a word to express its emotion— 
Then there came a fantastic, most singular notion 
To the brain of the Polyglotwoggle. 
“ Every tongue I will study,” it said, 
• From the ape’s to the great alligator’s ; 
For have I not forty-two tongues in my head? 
1 hey laugh at 1110 now, but they’ll call me, instead 
The most learn’d of all beastly translators.” ’ 
All its heart in the effort it threw 
Till its learning became the world’s wonder; 
But alas ! when it tried to converse with the gnu 
And puckered its lips to pronounce the French u’ 
Its tail split completely assunder ! 
Then on the two pieces it rose, 
And it cried, “ I’ll succeed if I can !” 
While the tips of its tail were turned up for its toes 
And it walked ! The first biped ! so synthesis shows’ 
And the Polyglotwoggle was Man? 
—W. W. Fink, in N. Y. Independent. 
TAXIDERMISTS WANTED. 
We are needing two more taxidermists, men 
who are thoroughly trained in the profession, and 
able to do first class work. To such we can offer 
a permanent position, with good pay and pleasant 
surroundings. Please apply promptly, in person 
or by letter. State what pieces you have worked 
upon, whether mammals and birds only, or also 
reptiles and fishes. 
We want only first class workmen who have 
had much experience. 
