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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2024-07-29 human Ken McInnes updated 2026-03-17 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007446b.htm person Ward Henry Augustus AACR2 9 March 1834 4 July 1906 Place of Birth Rochester, New York, United States of America Place of Death Buffalo, New York, United States of America Naturalist Geologist Henry Ward, after studying and travelling in Europe, the Middle East, West Africa and the West Indies, was a professor at the University of Rochester, New York 1860-1865. He established "Ward's Natural Science", a pioneering enterprise that collected natural history specimens from all parts of the world for sale to colleges and museums. He visited Australia in 1880 for the Melbourne International Exhibition (1880-1881) bringing with him a substantial collection which was sold to museums in New South Wales and Victoria. He then travelled the eastern colonies of Australia soliciting specimens for his collection in Rochester. His trade included ancestral remains and death masks. Royal Society of Tasmania (1843 - )

Traded specimens in the 1880s

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