Henry A. Ward: Museum Builder to America The Rochester Historical Society Publications Volume XXIV 24
1948réf. 2350189Rochester New York: Rochester Historical Society 1948. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Minimal loss of gilt from spine titles a few minor blemishes to boards owner bookplate on front endpaper. Binding tight and square text clean bright and unmarked. 1948 Hard Cover. xxiv 297 pp. 8vo. Green cloth gilt titles and rules. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates. A biography of the naturalist and geologist University of Rochester professor and founder of Ward's Natural Science a business which collected artifacts to be sold to museums. "Henry Augustus Ward 1834-1906 was an American naturalist and geologist born in Rochester New York. After attending Williams College and the Lawrence Scientific School Harvard where he was an assistant of Louis Agassiz he traveled in Egypt Arabia and Palestine and studied at the Jardin des Plantes the Sorbonne and the School of Mines in Paris and at the universities of Munich and Freiberg. Subsequently he traveled in West Africa and the West Indies making natural history collections. In 1860 he returned to Rochester where he was professor at the University of Rochester until 1865. In Rochester he founded Ward's Natural Science a pioneer enterprise of its kind which collected specimens from all parts of the world and then mounted and sold them to colleges and museums. In 1897 he married a widow Lydia Avery Coonley 1845-1924 president of the Chicago Woman's Club in 1895-96 who wrote Under the Pines and other Verses 1895; Singing Verses for Children 1897; Love Songs 1898. He died on July 4 1906 after being struck by an automobile in Buffalo New York becoming Buffalo's first automobile related fatality. His ashes were interred in Mount Hope Cemetery amongst a large boulder he found in Georgian Bay Ontario Canada until they were stolen. Ward's brain was contributed to the Wilder Brain Collection at Cornell University. Rochester Historical Society hardcover
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