Transcribe Ward, Henry A. Letter to Judd, Orange. (1870-07-11)

[Mammoth Mastodon, Glyptodon, Iguanodon, Icthyosaurus, Pleaiasanus, Brot. foggart, Pterodactyle,] and many others. </s Now > These Fossils are treated of in all our text books, and taught to every Geological Class in our Colleges. But the students never see the </s cast > specimens themselves: for these are so very rare or certainly unique that they are distributed sparsely in the great cabinets of the World, and are </u nearly all > in Europe.

  Now, without more words, my </s entire > work has been

(during six years spent in Europe) and with a heavy money outlay) to </u copy these great Fossils in plaster, > and then to make </u casts > which in size form & color shall be exact fac-similes of the originals. I have issued a catalogue of these casts (which I mail you today) and offer them to the cabinets of our large colleges or [Instiutions] where </u Science >. is really to be taught. I have full testimonials from our first Geologists in relation to these objects. I should like to show you these any time; please ^for present purpose ^ </s now > look at pages 215-16 of my book and also at letter from Prof. Alexander Winchell ^the Celebrated Michigan Geologist^ which I enclose.

  I have put a large series of these casts in the State

Geology Cabinet at Albany, and smaller series - from $1000. to $2000. each - in the colleges of Amherst, Cambridge, Columbia College N. York, Vasser College, Alleghany College, University of Rochester, Buffalo Acad. of Nat Sciences; and 18 months ago I sold a series for $2,500. to the Wesleyan