Transcribe Notice of the Ward cabinets...the University of Rochester (1863)

                       OPINIONS OF SCIENTIFIC MEN.                                                            29

hoped that it will soon be placed in a suitable hall, built expressly for its reception. Rochester out to be proud to possess such a treasure." J.T.

President Justin R. Loomis, of Lewisburg University, having visited Mr. Ward's Cabinet, expressed his estimation of it in the following terms:

"For fulness and perfection of specimens, it is superior to any Cabinet which I have ever seen. Its peculiar value consists, in my opinion, in the following particulars:

1st. The object for which the specimens are presented is obvious on simple examination, and does not require long explanation on the part of the teacher, nor professional attainments or special effort of the imagination on the part of the student, to comprehend their import.

2d. This collection exactly meets the wants of learners, by containing single specimens specially selected to illustrate individual points, as physical properties of minerals, typical forms of fossils, etc., etc.

3d. Its great value is its range. It is not like a Cabinet made up by collections and exchanges within a limited mineralogical and geological tract, which would abound to excess in certain kinds and be deficient in others.

This Cabinet is a fair expression of human knowledge in these departments, from all available sources, and without redundancy."

The Scientific American of the date of February 16, 1861, contains the following graphic account of the Cabinet, from the pen of the Rev. JAMES ORTON, of Lisle, N.Y,: