Henry Baldwin Ward

Background

Ward, Henry Baldwin was born on March 4, 1865 in Troy, New York, United States. Son of Richard Halsted and Charlotte Allen (Baldwin) Ward.

Education

Williams College, Bachelor of Arts, 1885: Harvard University, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, 1892. University of Cincinnati, Doctor of Science, 1920, Williams College, 1921. University of Goettingen, Germany, 1888-1889.

University of Freiburg, Baden, 1889-1890 University of Leipzig, Saxony, 1890. Biological Stations at Heligoland, Ville-franchesur-mer and Naples.

Career

Teacher of science, Troy High School, 1885-1888. Instructor morphology, University of Michigan, 1892-1893. Associate professor zoölogy, 1893-1898, professor, 1899-1909, dean College of Medicine, 1902-1909, University of Nebraska.

Professor zoölogy, University of Illinois, 1909-1933, emeritus professor of zoölogy since 1933.

Member Illinois State Board Museum Advisers (secretary since 1937). In charge biological work Michigan Fish Commision on Lake Michigan, 1894.

Associate biological survey Great Lakes, United States Fish Commission, since 1898. Associate editor American Naturalist, and of Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences.

Secretary American Micros.

Society, 1898-1904, president 1905. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (secretary section F, 1900, secretary council, 1901, general secretary, 1902, vice president, 1905, permanent secretary, 1933-1937, delegate to British Association of Science Oxford, 1928). President American Society Zoölogists, 1912-1914.

President American Fisheries Society, 1913.

Chairman National Wildlife Federal Committee on Conservation Education since 1938. Trustee Science Service, Incorporated., Washington.

Member American Medical Editors and Authors Association, Zoöl. Society France, German Zoöl.

Society; foreign member Imperial Society (Russian) for Acclimatization of Animals and Plants, Academy Sciences of Czechoslovakia.

Foreign corresponding member Venezuela Academy Medicine. Corresponding member Royal Academy Agriculture Turin. President Nebraska Academy Science, 1901, Association American Medical Colleges, 1908.

First president American Society Parasitologists, 1925.

Member permanent commission on International Zoöl. Congresses; general secretary Sigma Xi, 1895-1922, president, 1922-1924.

National president Izaak Walton League America, 1928-1930, member of national Executive Committee since 1925. Member Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Achievements

• Henry Baldwin Ward has been listed as a noteworthy zoölogist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member: Phi Beta Kappa. Sigma Xi.; American Medical Association. Alpha Omega Alpha; American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Societe Zoologique de France. Imperial Russian Society for Acclimatization of Animals and Plants. Academia Nacional de Medicina, Venezuela.

Royal Academy, of Agriculture, Turin. Clubs: University (Chicago and Urbana), Urbana Golf and Country.

Connections

Married Harriet Blair, September 11, 1894. Children: Mistress Cecilia Tanton, Charlotte Baldwin.

Father:

Richard Halsted Ward

Mother:

Charlotte Allen (Baldwin) Ward

Spouse:

Harriet Blair

child:

Charlotte Baldwin Ward

child:

Mistress Cecilia Tanton Ward