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Robert DeCourcy Ward was born in Boston, Massachussets, a descendant of William Ward who was in Cecil County, Md. , in the latter part of the seventeenth century. At the age of six months Robert was taken by his parents, Henry Veazey and Anna Saltonstall (Merrill) Ward, to Dresden, Germany, where his father was consul for Chile at the court of Saxony. There he remained four years. He then spent a year in Switzerland, where his father died, and a year in England.
In 1874 he returned to Boston and entered Noble and Greenough's School (then Noble's School), from which he graduated in 1885. In 1889 he received the degree of A. B. at Harvard, summa cum laude, and that of A. M. in 1893. As a graduate student he made two meteorological investigations, one on the sea breeze of New England and another on the thunderstorms of New England, both published in the Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College.
The year 1889-90 he spent in Europe, returning to Harvard in September 1890 to become assistant to Prof. W. M. Davis in physical geography and meteorology. In 1893 he became assistant in meteorology; instructor in meteorology in 1895; instructor in climatology in 1896; assistant professor in 1900; and professor in 1910--the first professor of climatology in the United States. In founding and developing his department, from which able teachers went to many institutions, he did a prodigious amount of work in assembling and putting into logical order all he could find on climatology by others. He strove to make simple what others had left involved, and thus became an exceptionally clear and exact writer. His first book, Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology (1899), was a product of necessity, nothing of the kind being available for his students. His next book, which appeared in 1903, a translation of the first volume of Julius von Hann's Handbuch der Klimatologie (1897), served an even greater practical use. His Climate, Considered Especially in Relation to Man was published in 1908, and a second edition issued in 1918. His bestknown book, The Climates of the United States, appeared in 1925. It embodies the results of a large amount of personal investigation and of much guided research on the part of his students. His last work, completed just before his death, is an extensive treatment of the climatology of North America for the great K"ppen-Geiger Handbuch der Klimatologie. He also contributed to scientific journals, and to the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He was editor of the American Meteorological Journal, 1892-96, for many years contributing editor of the Geographical Review, and editor of "Current Notes on Meteorology" in Science, 1896-1908. He was an extensive traveler, visiting all parts of the United States and much of Europe and South America, and making a trip around the world; wherever he went his observations of weather and climate were keen and abundant, and ready for publication immediately upon his return. He was president of the Association of American Geographers, 1917, and of the American Meteorological Society, 1920-21, and a member of many other societies at home and abroad. In addition to his other academic duties, he was, from 1900, a member of the administrative board of Harvard College, and for many years chairman of the board of freshman advisers and a member of the committee on admission. In 1927 he was Harvard exchange professor to the Western colleges. He helped to found the Immigration Restriction League in 1894, and took an active and effective part in all its work.
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His physique was frail, but the responsibilities he effectively assumed would have been heavy burdens for the most robust, and to him were possible only because he was extremely methodical in all he did. He was a delightful companion, full of information or jovial and witty as occasion required
On April 28, 1897, he married Emma Lane of St. Louis, who survived him but a few weeks; they had two sons and two daughters.
