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WARD'S NATURAL SCIENCE BULLETIN. 
A LARGE AND CELEBRATED HERBARIUM. 
There has been placed in our hands for sale, the immense and valuable Herbarium of the late 
distinguished Botanist, Professor William Henry Harvey, of Trinity College, Dublin. 
.The collection contains three hundred and sixty thick bundles of standard-sized botanical paper 
with sixteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven (16,977) species, from all parts of the world’ 
There are generally four or five specimens of each species, thus making a total of over seventy 
thousand specimens. 
The Herbarium came to us in these bundles carefully packed in large tin-lined boxes. But we 
have employed a competent Botanist to re-arrange the entire series, re- mounting the specimens on 
fiesh heavy paper of standard size, re labeling (yet retaining Harvey’s labels), and placing them 
with full botanical classification in a new style of Herbarium — cases like those which we used in 
our large Botanical cabinet for the University of Virginia. These cases are so constructed that 
their contents can be seen at a glance when closed, while when open each genus can be drawn out 
for examination on the movable shelf on which it lies. There are about 200 of these cases. 
Together they fill to the height of eight feet the whole side of a cabinet room fifty feet long. 
The above Herbarium contains specimens selected from most of the important European Cabi- 
nets (Royal and private), by Professor Harvey, by whom the naming of the specimens was most 
carefully revised and brought to the front line of Botanical classification. It has a notable value 
in connection with the history of Botanical science. 
This Herbarium would place any Museum of College or University or School of Science, on a 
level with most of the leading European collections in Botany; for there are very few (but five) 
Herbaria in this country, which contain so many species. Such an authentic collection, named 
with such care by so celebrated a Botanist, has probably never been offered before in America. 
Will be sold in bundles as it now is — without cases, PRICE, $2,500. 
Get Your Specimens Before You Sell Them. 
We are almost daily in receipt of letters from 
parties who are going to Florida, or some other 
part of the country, to collect ; and who wish to 
dispose of the entire fauna of the region to be 
visited, before they have even bought their rail- 
road ticket. It is entirely out of the question to 
sit down and make a list of specimens desired 
from this or that locality, not one-tenth of which 
the collector would probably even see, or very 
likely would recognize if he did see them. 
Neither have we time to figure on the probable 
state of our stock at the time the party will have 
finished his collecting, nor do we intend to bind 
ourselves to take his specimens when we may 
have the same things offered to us by a dozen 
different parties in the interim. To all such let- 
ters we would answer, once for all: Get your 
specimens before you try to sell. 
If You Have Anything to Sell, State Price. 
There is a class of people, homogenous with 
those referred to above, who send long lists of 
specimens, wishing us to add the prices that we 
will pay. We do not care to correspond for a 
week or two concerning a possible trade, as we 
are too busy and life is too short. If you have 
anything to sell, state your lowest cash price, 
and we will attend to your letter at once. A 
frank seller knows his prices and will state them. 
The other man often reallylets us read between 
his lines, “I hope to get a price which I dare not 
myself charge.” 
THE NEW GENESIS. 
The Spectator. 
August, year unknown; time. Six o’clock in the morn- 
ing: 
Sate in a tree an Ape; irrational; eating an apple. 
Raw; no cook as yet, no house, no shred of a garment; 
Soul, a blank; taste, nil; a thumb but slowly begin- 
ning: 
Warranted wholly an Ape, a great Jack-ape o’ the 
forest. 
Jabbering, hairy, grim, arboreal wholly in habits. 
So he sate on till Noon, when, hushed in slumber 
around him, 
Everything lay dead; all save the murmuring- insect, 
Whose small voice still spake, proclaiming silence. 
Awaking 
Suddenly then he rose, and thinking scorn of his fel- 
lows 
Longed to be quit of them all, his Apess specially. 
She, dear. 
Knew no dream, no vision; her Apelet playing about 
her, 
All her thought, her care! At Pour, he finally left 
her. 
Went to live by himself, but felt a pang— ’twas a con- 
science 
Budding, in germ! yet went; then stopped to bathe in 
a fountain; 
Wow! What an ugly pain! He saw and shuddered; a 
Ruskin 
Stirred in his breast. Taste born!— the taste of a 
mighty Ideal, 
Raffaelesque, Titianic! Erect he strode through the 
jungle, 
Cleaving his way with a stick;— Art’s rise! An imple- 
ment maker. 
Parent of Armstrong guns, steam rams, et cetera! 
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THE SCRIPTOGRAM STAMP. 
We have it at last. Every naturalist and col- 
lector should have one — a duplicating stamp that 
prints without type. Always ready, economical, 
does perfect work. ,The simplicity and ease with 
which it copies circulars, price lists, reports, 
drawings, music, maps, charts, etc., recom- 
mends it to both professional and business men. 
From 40 to 100 copies taken from one original. 
Naturalists and collectors will find this stamp 
an invaluable aid in printing exchange lists, price 
lists, data blanks, labels, letter heads, bill heads, 
etc. You can duplicate 50 notices in lO'minutes 
thus saving delay and expense of printing. You 
are not confined to one form, as when using a 
rubber stamp. Each stamp has a highly finished 
black walnut top, and is packed in a neatly ^ar- 
ranged box with two colors of ink, sponge and 
full directions for use. Entire process, prepaid, 
on receipt of $1.65. Send two cent stamp for 
samples of work. Liberal terms to dealers. 
Address C. D. Chichester, manufacturer, Gene- 
seo, N. Y. 
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THOLOGY, Published for the Orinthologists’ 
Union. Annual subscription, $3, strictly in advance. 
Single numbers, 75 cents. Address L, S. POSTER, 
Publisher, 35 Pine Street, New York, 
Specialties in Museum Hardware. 
Fig. I. 
The undersigned manufactures the Patent 
Monitor Locks and Improved Brackets and 
Racks for adjustable shelves, and adapted to all 
styles of Museum Cases. 
Special new and improved machinery for cut- 
ting and polishing minerals, petrified wood, etc., 
on hand or made to order. 
Adopted and recommended by the principal 
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Please mention this paper in correspondence. 
