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Ward (HENRY AUGUSTUS an Scientific)

HENRY AUGUSTUS, an Scientific School in 1854; studied in Paris and traveled through Europe and the Orient in 1855-1859; was Professor of Natural Sciences in Rochester University in 1860-1865; and manager of gold mines in Montana and South Carolina in 1866-1869. In 1870 he began to travel in various countries, making large and valuable cabinets of mineralogy and geology, which he distributed among the WARD universities and colleges of the United States. He founded, at Rochester, N. Y., an establishment where these cabinets were prepared, taxidermy executed, and natural-science collections arranged; was acting naturalist on the United States expedition to Santo Domingo; and wrote "Notices of the Megatherium Cuvieri," and "Description of the Most Celebrated Fossil Animals in the Royal Museums of Europe." He died July 4, 1906.