Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-08
Monkeys for the Museum.
Members of the Tribe, Stuffed and Mount ed. Already in the City.
 rEronn ffa Naw York Tiraes

From the New York Times.l
 The first installment of the monkeys of the world which Prof. Henry A. Ward, of Rochester, is to furnish the American Muse um of Natural History, arrived iE tsEis eiiktyy' last week, and the specimens have been placed in cases in the museum Prof Ward expects that it will take him about three years to fill the contract for which he will receive $9, 800. There are in all about three hundred specimens, less than one hundred of which he has already secured. The install ment already delivered includes, however, some of the most interesting and rarest spec imens of the monkey tribe. They are placed at the rear end of the first floor and occupy six or eight cases. First in interest are the anthropoid or man like apes. the head of the family being the gorilla. The gorilla fur ] nished by Prof. Ward is a magnificent male I standing five feet eight inches, and weighed, I when alive, about 160 pounds. It was cap tured by Baron von Koppenteld, who is in the professors employ, on the Congo river, in West Africa. Looks as if it could vote, doesn't ?" said the professor yesterday af- ternoon The resemblance to human being l is startling. In 8 case near by are five 1 orang- -outangs. from Borneo, captured by the professor in 1881. "Ora1g g-outang," he explained means man of the woods. All men are called orangs there. I saw show bill in the Malay language advertising Will sons circus, in which many 'orangs were
  case by themselves There are two males, female, and two young ones. The animals are displayed on branches of the durion tree, in which they mostly stay when on their na- tive heath The female has durion bean in one paw, while her lord and master, evident 1y shocked at her greatness is reaching for the fruit. In the case with the gorilla are
 several gibbons from Southern India and CeyIon. They are the smallest of the an- thropoids, and walk very daintily, balancing themselves with their, fore-legs or arms Chimpanzees are needed to complete the list
 of anthropoids. The anthropoids have no tails
 The baboons come next, with short tails l and well-developed canine teeth. ''They are the dogs among the monkeys said Prof Ward. ''In Abyssinia where thess came ! from, I saw one day group of them by the | road side. They were egging each other on | to attack us those behind crowding the van guard. I wanted to shoot at them, but my comrades would not let me. If we had l killed one of them the chances are that it would have been all up with us" The ba- 1 boons live largely on roots and insects, other
 monkeys mainly on fruit They are covered with hair to their hindquarters. Near by is a flying lemur from the Philippine Islands l 'sThat, said the professor, lis among mon keys what the flying squirrel is among TO- dents" The body is about the size of fer ret The lemurs belong to the lowest divi- sion of the monkey race They are found in Madagascar Their bodies are slim and they | have long tails There is little difference be- 1 tween the hind and fore legs. Almost every group of animals" said the professor. l turning to case near the lemurs, ''sends out 1 specimens where they don't belong. The ti- ger, for instance, Is native of India, but 1t | is found in Corea. Here is an example in
 the monkey tribe. This fellow with the thick fur I bought of priest in a temple at l Tokio. It came from Yeddo, in Japan, where the species run around in the snow. 1 So you see monkeys are not altogether pro duct of the tropics" A curious looking
 specimen with long red nose, known as the proboscis monkey, from Borneo, looked 1 calmly from a case near by on a group of South American monkeys across the aisle. l The South American monkeys have long pre-
 hensile tails with which they cling to branch
 es The exhibit includes marmosets and ouistitis, small animals which often become | pets There is no museum in the world
 which has g complete collection of monkeys | Prof. Ward has been engaged in furnishing 1 specimens to museums for the past eighteen | years At his establishment in. Rochester l which is the only one of it's kind in this
 country, he employs twenty three men. Eff | ty collectors and correspondents in various | parts of the world furnish him with speci- 1 mems. Animals are sent to him in liquor or
 brine, or the skins, dried or packed in salt, | are forwarded. In addition to supplying the | American Museum with the monkeys of the
 world, he has also engaged to complete the
 present collection of the mammals and birds
 of North America, numbering in all about eight hundred specimens. For this he is to
 receive $10,000 He is also furnishing spec l ial collections to museums in this country
 and in Europe, including full collection of
 marsupials to the National Museum in Wash ington. He has travelled himself very exten- siveIy, and has just returned from New Zea-
 land and Australia, where he has been hunt ing kangaroos.