Col. Wood's Museum,

Situated on Randolph street, between Clark and Dearborn, combines natural history with the drama, and presents the visitor with an excellent collection of mineralogical, orinthclogical, animal and collected specimens illustrative of the natural world and of savage and civilized art. The catalogue of birds, reptiles, quadrupeds and insects comprises some twelve hundred specimens, from all parts of the world, to which additions are being constantly made. Geological and relic rooms contain most interesting geological and mineralogical specimens. The funeral bier and memorable relics of Lincoln; wax work figures of the last supper and trial before Pontius Pilate of our Savior Jesus Christ, which are made to move by machinery; a model of the Capitol at Washington; one of the Parthenon; a grotto of Antiparos; illustrated views of California; two cosmoramic saloons; and the mummies around which the papyrus was rolled on which the Book of Abraham—published in the Pearl of Great Price—was inscribed, form a collection of specimens worthy the attention of all and the admiration of the student of nature. The mummies were sold by those who had them in charge after the death of the Prophet, Joseph Smith, and were afterwards obtained for the Museum—so the printed catalogue states.

Besides the attractions named is another, which cannot be overlooked, in the reproduction of a denizen of primeval days, which has received the name of Zeuglodon Macrospondylus, one of an extinct species to which the generic name of Hydrachen has been given. The skeleton of this monster was found in the state of Arkansas; and its length, as it sported in the wilds of primitive earth, was ninety-six feet.

With the museum is a fine, large, roomy theatre, under the management of J. W. Blaisdell, Esq., where the sensational and standard drama finds correct interpretation. The company is a very good one; the pieces produced are mounted and put upon the stage with much care and taste; and the patronage bestowed upon the Museum and theatre is most liberal and well deserved.