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NAME WARD 1189 WARD in the medical schools of Philadelphia and New York, in 1862 receiving his degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City. He served as surgeon in the U. S. Military Hospital at Nashville, Tennessee, but was invalided north and in 1863 settled in Troy, N. Y., where he was first associated ■with Thomas W. Blatchford (q.v.), and where he practised medicine until retiring a few years before his death. Dr. Ward was a leader in the development of microscopy and its application to medicine. He was president of the National Micro- scopical Congress (1878), first president of the American Microscopical Society, fellow and vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society of London, Eng- land, one of the four foreign fellows of the Belgian Microscopical Society, a correspond- ing member of the Albany Institute, Boston Society of Natural History, and of other mi- croscopical and scientific societies. He was twice president of the Rensselaer County Med- ical Society. He had been an attending phy- sician at the Marshall Sanitarium since 1868 and at the time of his death was one of its governors and chairman of the Medical Board. In 1890 he attended the International Medical Congress at Berlin as a delegate, and in 1891 he represented the United States as a member of the Committee of Honor at the Interna- tional Exposition of Microscopy, held at Ant- werp, Belgium. Pr. Ward was professor of botany at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1867 and taught there until he resigned his professor- ship in 1892. Despite the demands of a large practice he devoted much time to the pursuit of his favorite studies with the microscope, carried out extensive experiments on the con- struction of the instnunent and on the methods of its use. He was particularly interested in the practical applications of microscopy to the detection of forgeries, to the identification of blood, to the demonstration of adulterants, and to the investigation and prevention of disease. In many of these directions his work was that of a pioneer and determined the lines followed by later investigators. He was always keenly interested in making scientific work clear and attractive to those not technically trained, and devoted much time and energy to local scien- tific organizations in which his addresses, dem- onstrations, and discussions were eagerly wel- comed by all. He was a devoted public-spirited citizen. For twelve years Dr. Ward was on the editorial staff of the American Naturalist in charge of the department of microscopy. This was the period in which the great individual American inventors and b'uilders of the mi- croscope, R. B. ToUes and the two Spencers, were at work, and his monthly critical notes on the pro'feress of this branch of science played an important part in developing the American microscope of today. He published many scientific papers both here and abroad, among the most important being "Practical Uses of the Microscope," "Medical Microscopy," "The Study of Blood and Handwriting," "Micro- metry Illumination," "The Powers, Aperture, and Nomenclature of Objectives and Oculars." He devised numerous improvements in the microscope and several useful accessories, and printed a much used "Slide Catalog." He con- ducted an extensive correspondence with the leading English and continental workers with the microscope, and contributed much to their publications as recognized in many cases by the authors. Dr. Ward was married in 1862 to Charlotte Allen Baldwin, daughter of Caleb D. and Susan Moore Baldwin of Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a direct descendant through her mother of John Alden and Priscilla of the Mayflower. Their children are : Henry Baldwin Ward, Professor of Zoology, University of Illinois, Urbana; Alice Blatch- ford Ward, unmarried, living in Troy, New York; Carolyn Ward Chapman (Mrs. W. W.), Bridgeport, Connecticut ; Richard Percy Ward, Hemet, California. Dr. Ward died October 28, 1917. Henry Baldwin Ward. Ward, Thomas (1807-1873) Thomas Ward was born in Newark, New Jersey, June 8, 1807, and died in New York City, April 13, 1873. He was the son of Gen. Thomas Ward, of Newark, New Jersey, of Revolutionary fame, who represented his dis- trict in the First Congress of the United States. Dr. Ward was educated at Princeton College and spent two years in Paris, study- ing in the medical colleges. He returned to this country in 1828, and continued at Rutgers Medical College, taking his M. D. there in 1829. Dr. Ward about this time married the second daughter of Jacob Lorillard. Though distinguished as a physician and a man of lit- erary culture and attainments, he was best known as a patron of art and a warm-hearted philanthropist. Ward devoted himself to music, poetry and the fine arts, and had a finely cultured musical taste, ranking among the first amateurs of the day. He composed many ballads and comic operas, which were