Author:Robert DeCourcy Ward

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Robert DeCourcy Ward
(1867–1931)

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American climatologist, author, and educator; first professor of climatology (Harvard University) in the USA. A.M. (Harvard); Fellow of Royal Meteorological Society, London

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "R. de C. W."

Works

Climate, considered especially in Relation to Man
Practical exercises in elementary meteorology (1889) ([ttp://books.google.com/books?id=ScIxAAAAMAAJ external scan])
Immigration Restriction League (1895)
"Climate and Climatology," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Sometime Editor of American Meteorological Journal

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

"A Year of Weather and Trade in the United States" in Popular Science Monthly, 61 (September 1902)
"The Agricultural Distribution of Immigrants" in Popular Science Monthly, 66 (December 1904)
"Changes of Climate" in Popular Science Monthly, 69 (November 1906)
"The National Exposition at Rio de Janeiro" in Popular Science Monthly, 74 (February 1909)
"Climate in Some of its Relations to Man" in Popular Science Monthly, 76 (March 1910), pp. 246–268
"The Value of Non-Instrumental Weather Observations" in Popular Science Monthly, 80 (February 1912)
"The Influence of Forests Upon Climate" in Popular Science Monthly, 82 (April 1913)
"The War and the Weather During the First Three Months of the Fighting" in Popular Science Monthly, 85 (December 1914)

Works about Ward

"WARD, Robert De Courcy". Who's Who in New England: p. 1109. 1915.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

This author died in 1931, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 92 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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