WARD’S ^NATURAL SCIENCE BULLETIN. 
13 
CATALOGUE OF SPECIMENS IN COMPAR- 
ATIVE OSTEOLOGY. 
Price Twenty-five 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 skulls 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 thelarg- 
er skeletons, bleached, with bones separate, in 
box or bag, with vertebras 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 
N eilgherry Langur (, Semnopithecus cucullatus ) 28 
Lion ( Felis Leo ) 90 
Cat (Felis domestica) .. . 12 
Hooded Seal ( Gystophora cristata), 55 
Hair Seal (Gallocephalus vitulinus), 35 
Pilot Whale (Globiocephalus svineval), , 175 
Porpoise (Phocaena cummunis), 35 
Dugong (Halicore australis),. 165 
Tapir (Tapirus indicus), 100 
Bactrian Camel (Gamelus Bactrianus),. 150 
Gaur Ox (Gavaeus gaurus), 120 
Cow (Bos laurus), ... 80 
Sheep (Ovis aries), 35 
Elephant (Elephas indicus), 700 
Indian Fruit Bat (Pteropus Edioardsii), 14 
Brown Bat ( Vesperiillio carolinensis), 9 
Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), 12 
Capybara (IlydrocJmrws capybara), . 45 
Woodchuck (Arclomys monax), 12 
Aard Yark (Orycteropus aethiopicus), 75 
Great Anteater (Myrmecophaga jubata), 75 
Giant Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), 75 
Pademelon Wallaby (Halmaturus thetidis), . 25 
Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus ), 30 
Echidna (Echidna hystrix ). 25 
Special attention is given to the selection of 
series of typical forms, 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 
TWO YEARS IN THE JUNGLE. 
BY WM. T. HORNADAY, CHIEF TAXIDERMIST, U. S. 
NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
1 vol. 8vo. 512 pp., 2 Folding Maps, and 51 Illustrations, 
Chas. Scribner’s Sons, Publishers, 743 
Broadway, New York. 
When Mr. Hornaday left our establishment in 
1876, for the Natural History collecting tour of 
the world, which the above work describes, we 
looked upon his success in the undertaking as a 
foregone conclusion. 
His previous visits in our interest to collecting 
localities in Florida, Cuba, the Windward Isles, 
and British Guiana, had made us conversant with 
his extraordinary abilities in obtaining valuable 
specimens, and in preparing and preserving them 
when obtained. Our expectations from this 
greater trip were thus very great, and they were 
more than fulfilled. While Mr. H. visited many 
and widely distant collecting fields, he knew well 
and practiced the art of seeking forms of especial 
interest, and limiting himself to these, instead of 
dissipating his energies in a promiscuous gather- 
ing — as do so many foreign and home collectors 
— of every beast, bird and fish that fell in his way. 
We wanted gavials, tigers, jaugurs, gaur ox, and 
elephants, in India and Ceylon. These he 
sought, each one in its particular district, and 
then he hastened away to the Malay Peninsula 
and to Borneo, to get us orang-outans and other 
specific forms, which we wanted from there. 
The result of all was that while Mr. Hornaday’s 
collections were very large, we may say enormous, 
they were all good, desirable specimens, repre- 
sentative species in important zoological orders. 
Neither in our own travels nor our reading of the 
travels and collecting feats of other naturalists, 
have we ever known so choice and individually 
valuable a series of specimens,— skins, skeletons, 
and invertebrate animals — to be brought together 
as were those contained in the eighty or more 
boxes which Mr. H. sent to us from this trip. 
They were worth to us five or ten times as much 
as the same number of specimens gathered and 
offered to us by other ordinary collectors. But 
while Mr. Hornaday was so exclusive in his 
selection of material objects, he was far from be- 
ing so in his observations during his trip. 
These, as he has recorded them for us in his 
charming book of travel, are of the most compre- 
hensive and varied kind. He takes us with him 
into the dense forest or by the bank of a tropical 
river, and then he portrays all in so lively, vivid, 
and circumstantial a manner, that we see all that 
he has seen, and learn solid facts with the flow- 
ing narrative. This is altogether the most de- 
lightful book of naturalist travel with which we 
have ever met. It reads like a romance, yet 
truth and conscientious, pains-taking accuracy 
are visible on every page. Mr. Hornaday is in- 
deed the hero of it all, but it is from the facts 
described that the reader sees this, not in its being 
told him directly. There is something con- 
tagious in the earnest perseverance with which he 
pursues his purposes; and all our instincts of 
naturalist apt! sportsman rejoice and exult at the 
success which comes to him — sooner or later — in 
almost every quest. The author takes us right 
into his confidence and lets us see all the phases 
of the daily life and the detail of the daily doings - 
of a naturalist in foreign parts. The book is 
crowded with facts useful to the collector of 
natural history specimens everywhere, and every 
one of these should read it. Its contagious, jolly, 
good-natured, humorous style is sure to captivate 
the reader. The studied accounts of particular 
animals, as the gavial, the elephant, and the 
orang, are of especial value to the reader, whether 
he be naturalist or otherwise. Speaking of the 
action of a herd of elephants which his party was 
stalking, he says: “I was really surprised at this 
exhibition of sagacity and almost military ma- 
noeuvring. We saw them deliberately 1. Re- 
connoitre dangerous ground by sending out scouts 
and spies; 2. Communicate intelligence by signs 
or sign language; 3. Retreat in orderly silence 
from a lurking danger; and 4. March off in 
single file, like the jungle tribes of men. How 
different was this stealthy, noiseless retreat from 
the wild stampede which follows an open attack, 
in which the crashing and tearing through the 
jungle is at first appalling. This time the foe 
was still in ambush when discovered, and the 
order signalled was ‘ Retreat in silence and good 
order.’ And yet there are intelligent people who 
believe that none of the lower animals are capa- 
ble of reasoning.” 
He tells us of the “ Old Man,” as he had nick- 
named the baby orang, whose picture we have 
taken from his book to put at the head of this 
column: “ Whenever Ah Kee begins to set the 
table — the box I mean — for a meal, the Old Man 
is all animation. He rises instantly from the 
straw where he has been lying, lazily playing 
with his toes or making up faces, and gets as 
near the table as his line will let him go. By 
standing as nearly erect as he can, stretching his 
neck to the utmost, he can just see the dishes on 
the box, and watch for the plates of food. As 
the crisis approaches, he grows more and more 
excited, whining, coaxing and pleading with his 
eyes for the food which is just beyond his anxious 
fingers. If I sit down and begin to eat without 
feeding him, he looks at me reproachfully, his 
nether lip drops disconsolately, and he whines in 
an aggrieved tone. If I still refuse to serve him, 
his whine rises to a shrill, child-like scream, and 
he throws himself flat upon the floor, kicking 
and screaming like a spoiled child.” 
“ This was the most human action I ever saw 
in Ape or Monkey. 
More than once I attempted to discipline the 
little brute with a small switch to see if I could 
make him stop screaming, but, true to the im- 
pulses of nature, he only screamed the louder. 
The Old Man evinces a decided liking for me, 
and also for Ah Kee; but is shy of strangers. 
Whenever a dog makes his appearance in our 
room or it thunders hard, the little fellow makes 
straight for me, as fast as he can come, climbs 
quickly up my legs and nestles in my arms for 
protection. The Dyaks consider him unusually 
bright even for an Orang, and several have trav 
eled miles on purpose to see him.” 
The entire book is filled, from cover to cover, 
with the most interesting descriptions of animal 
life and the most racy and graphic relatings of 
his adventures, in which latter he is sometimes 
the victor, sometimes the victim. No lover of 
nature and natural objects, can afford to deprive 
himself of the delight and profit to be found in 
reading Hornaday’s “Two Years in the Jungle.” 
ALCOHOLIC PREPARATIONS. 
We have a large series of invertebrate and ver- 
tebrate material on hand. Among the latter are 
Crossorhinus, Cestracion, Ceratodus, Protopterus, 
Polypterus, Siredon (larval form), Amblystoma, 
Sieboldia, Hatteria, Ornithorhynchus, Echidna, 
Phascolarctos, Perameles, Halmaturus, Macro- 
pus, Dasyurus, Didelphys, Tatusia, etc., etc. 
Foetal (in pouch) Phascolomys, Phalangista, 
Phascolarctos, Halmaturus, Callorhinus, Enhy-' 
dra, etc. Heart, Elephas indicus; heart, penis, 
and eye, Halicore australis; heart, Eumetopias 
stelleri. Heart, Camel us arabicus. Heart. Phas- 
colomys. If you wish anything in this line, 
write and let us know; the probabilities are that 
we have it. 
