WARD'S NATURAL SCIENCE BULLETIN. 
m 
CATALOGUE OF SPECIMENS IN COMPAR- 
ATIVE OSTEOLOGY. 
September, 1880. Price, 25 cents. 
This Catalogue enumerates about SIX HUN- 
DRED SPECIES, representing very fully all 
classes of vertebrates, and among Mammalia the 
greater part of the families. 
THE PRICES as given are based upon the 
perfection of the specimens. When a skeleton 
is ordered, and the specimen on hand is not (as 
some times happens) of first class category, it 
will be announced at once in its real character, 
and a lower price fixed upon it. I take great 
pains, however, to exclude medium, or under sized 
specimens from my stock, so far as it is possible 
under the conditions which govern the first col- 
lecting of this class of objects. 
EACH SKELETON IS MOUNTED WITH 
BRASS or (in the larger ones) bronzed standards, 
on a BLACK WALNUT PEDESTAL. The 
skulls have the lower jaw movably articulated 
with spiral brass springs. Both the skull and 
the fore and hind legs of the larger specimens 
are so articulated that they may readily be re- 
moved from the body for closer examination or 
lecture-room illustration, and again replaced. 
DISARTICULATE SPECIMENS of the larg- 
er skeletons, bleached, with bones separate, in 
box or bag, with vertebrae numbered and strung, 
and with each hand and foot by itself, furnished 
at one-half or three-fifths the prices noted for 
mounted specimens. 
The following short list, chosen from among 
the mammalia, will give a fair idea of the extent 
of our stock of skeletons, and its wide range in 
price and variety : 
Gorilla ( Troglodytes Gorilla), $325 
Neilgherry Langur ( Semnopithecus cucullatus), 28 
Lion ( Felis Leo), 90 
Cat ( Felis domestica), 12 
Hooded Seal ( Cystophora cristata), 55 
Hair Seal ( Callocephalus vitulinus), 35 
Pilot Whale {Globiocephalus svineval), 175 
Porpoise ( Phoccena communis ), 35 
Dugong ( Halicore australis), 165 
Tapir {Tapirus indicus), 100 
Bactrian Camel ( Camelus Bactrianus), 150 
Gaur Ox ( Gavaeus gaurus), 120 
Cow ( Bos taurus), 80 
Sheep {Oms aries), 35 
Elephant (Elephas indicus), 700 
Indian Fruit Bat ( Pteropus Edwardsii), 14 
Brown Bat ( Vespertilio carolinensis), 9 
Hedgehog ( Erinaceus europaeus) 12 
Capybara ( Hydrochmrus Capybara), 45 
Woodchuck ( Arciomys monax) 12 
Aard Yark ( Orycteropus cethiopicus) 75 
Silky Anteater {Oyclothurus dorsalis), 12 
Giant Kangaroo {Macropus giganteus), 75 
Pademelon Wallaby {Halmaturus thetidis), . . 25 
Platypus {Ornithorhynchus anatin-u.s), 22 
Echidna {Echidna hystrix), 25 
Special attention is given to the selection of 
series of typical for 7ns, adapted for the use of 
schools and colleges, and estimates of such 
series, ranging in price from $100 to $3,000, will 
be furnished when so desired. 
HUMAN SKELETONS. 
The skeletons offered in the following series 
are of first quality in every particular of bleach- 
ing, mounting, and other preparation. A small 
proportion are imported from Paris; the balance 
are prepared by Parisian workmen in my own 
establishment : 
Adult Human Skeleton, mounted with 
suspension ring $40 to $50 
Ditto: Mounted with Bronzed Standard on 
Black Walnut pedestal, and with cam- 
bric tunic $50 to $55 
Ditto: Mounted in handsome Ash case, 
with extensible bracket, and lock and 
key, $70 
Ditto: Disarticulate. With bones of one 
hand and one foot united by artificial 
ligaments $28 
HUMAN SKELETONS. 
So far the Americans have not been able to com- 
pete with the exporters, although they are improving 
in the manner of preparing them. There is but one 
man in this city who thoroughly understands the busi- 
ness of preparing these skeletons, and he is a French- 
man who has been in the business a number of years 
across the Atlantic. He knows, however, the value of 
his work, and by the time he has completed his work 
the skeleton costs almost as much as if it was imported 
direct, and a finer specimen might be obtained.” 
“ What does it cost for a good skeleton or skull ?” 
“ Much depends on the size and color. You can buy 
skeletons for $45 apiece, and a good one for $90 and 
$ 100 . 
The above notes were taken from a lengthy 
article in Truth (New York), and we give the 
writer thereof a cordial invitation to visit Ward’s 
Natural Science Establishment and examine our 
stock of human skeletons, which range in price 
from $28 to $30 for disarticulate specimen, up to 
$40 or $50 for one mounted. For special styles 
of mounting we frequently receive much more. 
For example, we supplied the Philadelphia Art 
School with a fine specimen mounted with brass 
standard on ebonized pedestal. The skull was 
vertically and horizontally bisected — the various 
sections being removable — and rotated on the 
vertebral column. The fingers and great toes were 
flexibly articulated, so as to be adjustable to any 
desired position. Such a skeleton we can furnish 
for $100. In preparing our skeletons we take pains 
to give them long and careful maceration, in order 
to secure good white specimens without the use of 
acids or materials which destroy the texture of the 
bone. The mounting is done in the most careful 
manner, so as to combine strength with neatness, 
the skull, hands, feet and other limb bones being 
removable for study. The amount of mechanical 
work on a skeleton is rarely appreciated by one 
who has never tried to “wire together.” For 
instance, in mounting a hand with flexible fingers 
there are fourteen strips of brass to cut and 
smooth, twenty-eight saw cuts to make, forty- 
two small holes to drill, and as many small brass 
pins to cut, point and insert; and all this must be 
done neatly and accurately. The varying prices 
of skeletons arise from their various degrees of 
whiteness, perfection of dentition, and size and 
amount of muscular development. 
A NEW CATALOGUE. 
We have lately issued a new catalogue of “Hu- 
man Skeletons and Anatomical Preparations.” 
This contains 25 pages, and enumerates, with full 
detail of description and price, a series of several 
hundred objects in this department. Here are 
human skeletons, skulls, arms, hands, legs and 
feet, mounted in various ways as well as disar- 
ticulate, and all beautifully white and odorless. 
There are also skeletons and skulls of about 
twenty different races of aborigines from various 
parts of the world, including several tribes of our 
American Indians. Also large series of Anatomi- 
cal Models of every portion of the human body 
taken by itself, together with manikins or torsos 
which give the entire body, from which all the 
parts and organs take out and then themselves dis- 
sect or take to pieces. These models are of papier 
mache, and are the work of the best French and 
German makers. Send for catalogue; price 15c. 
