Henry A Ward, Museum Builder to America

Sir Henry Wellcome's museum for the science of history.

The collection of artefacts amassed by Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936) known, since 1913, as his Historical Medical Museum and, since its transfer to the Science Museum in 1977, as the Wellcome Museum of the History of Medicine, has frequently aroused amazement because of its enormous size and range. By the early 1930s, Wellcome's collection was five times larger than that of the Louvre ...

The First Natural History Museum in America.

Cooperation with the Film Industries in the Study of Special Articles: Primitive Music: PROFESSOR CARL E. SEASHORE ...... 263 The Effect of Humidity on Beta Streptococci Scientificc Events: (Group C) Atomized into Air: PROFESSOR W. F. WELLS and PETER ZAPPASODI. Isolation of a New Recent Deaths; The Achievements of Medicine in "Carotenoid" from Bat Liver: DR. CHRISTOPHER Siberia; Aeronautics at ...

Unveiling of the Bust of Henry Fairfield Osborn at the American Museum of Natural History.

THREE and a half centuries ago Francis Bacon said "I take all knowledge to be my -sphere." Though competent scholars state that Bacon was far from having full knowledge of the science of his day, his aspiration was not ridiculous or even particularly remarkable in his time, and had he given to science half the time he devoted to statecraft he might well have mastered all the science that was th...

Introduction of Marilyn E. Scott as the Henry Baldwin Ward medalist for 1991.

Acceptance of the 2009 Henry Baldwin Ward Medal: the accidental parasitologist.

Members of the Society, President Conn, colleagues, friends, and particularly students, the Ward Medal recipient, from Clarke Read onward, traditionally recounts how their career was shaped. A decade ago, in a crumbling Kona hotel, the ASP’s own tattooed lady, Janine Caira, opened her Ward Medal address with: ‘‘To all future Ward Medalists, many of whom I trust are sitting in the audience out t...