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minerals. It might well satisfy an octogenarian naturalist has his life 
work; but Prof. Ward, I understand, is not yet thirty. It will 
well repay the scientific man for turning aside a good distance to 
visit it.

Neither do I remember to have seen it any where stated in print, 
that Prof. Ward has had copied in plaster, almost all the large and 
rare geological specimens in the cabinets of Europe, which are sold 
in such establishments as those of Krantz at Bonn. These are
fully equal in execution to those from Bonn, and considerably 
cheaper, to say nothing of transportation.

I am very glad that Prof. Ward is able and willing to superintend
this work, which will be of so great service to the literary 
institutions of our country. He will soon be able to furnish casts 
of 200 genera, great and small. I have obtained as many of them 
as my means would allow, and have seen most of them, and know 
that they are very satisfactory. I hope Prof. Ward will soon publish 
a catalogue, with prices, of such as his moulders can furnish."

We understand that an effort is on foot to secure this fine
Museum for the city of Rochester. It is an object well worthy of
the ambition of any city to obtain such a noble and permanent institution, 
free at all times to the public.  * * * * * * *

The citizens of Rochester, if they secure the permanent establisjment
of the Ward Museum in their city, may well pride themselves
on the acquisition; they will hold the most extensive Geological 
Museum in the United States, and secure the presence of students
in geology and mineralogy, who will come up to Rochester to avail
themselves of the education advantages connected with this 
Museum, and the lecture of Prof. Ward, wo now holds the chair
of the Natural Science in the University of Rochester.

In addition to the above letter, as quoted by Prof. Silliman, Prof. 
Hitchcock has written elsewhere of the Cabinets, as follows:

" I have been amazed at the extent and richness of Prof. Ward's 
collection of Geology and Mineralogy, and I can hardly conceive 
how they could have been got together by so young a man, especially 
when I find that a large part of these 40,000 specimens were
obtained by him from the most remarkable localities known in 
Europe, Asia and Africa." * * * "These rocks are certainly 
better represented here than in any other Cabinet in the United 
States, and I doubt whether there is any one in Europe, except, 
perhaps, that of Prof, Cordier in Paris, so full and satisfactory.

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26 OPINIONS OF SCIENTIFIC MEN.

minerals. It might well satisfy an octogenarian naturalist has his life work; but Prof. Ward, I understand, is not yet thirty. It will well repay the scientific man for turning aside a good distance to visit it.

Neither do I remember to have seen it any where stated in print, that Prof. Ward has had copied in plaster, almost all the large and rare geological specimens in the cabinets of Europe, which are sold in such establishments as those of Krantz at Bonn. These are fully equal in execution to those from Bonn, and considerably cheaper, to say nothing of transportation.

I am very glad that Prof. Ward is able and willing to superintend this work, which will be of so great service to the literary institutions of our country. He will soon be able to furnish casts of 200 genera, great and small. I have obtained as many of them as my means would allow, and have seen most of them, and know that they are very satisfactory. I hope Prof. Ward will soon publish a catalogue, with prices, of such as his moulders can furnish."

We understand that an effort is on foot to secure this fine Museum for the city of Rochester. It is an object well worthy of the ambition of any city to obtain such a noble and permanent institution, free at all times to the public. * * * * * * *

The citizens of Rochester, if they secure the permanent establisjment of the Ward Museum in their city, may well pride themselves on the acquisition; they will hold the most extensive Geological Museum in the United States, and secure the presence of students in geology and mineralogy, who will come up to Rochester to avail themselves of the education advantages connected with this Museum, and the lecture of Prof. Ward, wo now holds the chair of the Natural Science in the University of Rochester.

In addition to the above letter, as quoted by Prof. Silliman, Prof. Hitchcock has written elsewhere of the Cabinets, as follows:

" I have been amazed at the extent and richness of Prof. Ward's collection of Geology and Mineralogy, and I can hardly conceive how they could have been got together by so young a man, especially when I find that a large part of these 40,000 specimens were obtained by him from the most remarkable localities known in Europe, Asia and Africa." * * * "These rocks are certainly better represented here than in any other Cabinet in the United States, and I doubt whether there is any one in Europe, except, perhaps, that of Prof, Cordier in Paris, so full and satisfactory.