Transcribe Ward, Henry A. Letter to Dennys, N. B. (1881-10-05)

Singapore, Oct. 5 1881, Dr. N.B. Denngo, N.B. Dennys. Curator of Roffles Library & Museum. I have today given a second look through tour museum with a view to note its present contents and the directions in which growth and enlargement should take place. I have been quite invested in what I have seen there as giving good {Illegible} for the future. For while the collections are still small they have already a certain character of scientific symmetry. In that they are not of one class-all birds or all niches or all butterflies- as I often see in museums. The several {illegible}, Beasts, birds, reptiles, Batochians, and niches with all the prominent orders among the invertebrates are represented so evenly that the resultant museum has no means scientific value. More so than I generally see in collection museums of this kind which due in their growth to fortuitous donations are usually very one-sided and give distasteful views of nature. Your collections need hep filling of gaps to make their well-