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See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
WARD, LESTER See also:FRANK (1841– ) , See also:American geologist and sociologist, was See also:born in See also:Joliet, See also:Illinois, on the 18th of See also:June 1841. He graduated at Columbian (now See also:George See also:Washington) University in 1869 and from the See also:law school of the same university in 1871, his See also:education having been delayed by his service in the See also:Union See also:army during the See also:Civil See also:War. In 1865–1872 he was employed in the See also:United States See also:Treasury See also:Department, and became assistant geologist in 1881 and geologist in 1888 to the U.S. See also:Geological Survey. In 1884–1886 he was See also:professor of See also:botany in Columbian University. He wrote much on paleobotany, including A See also:Sketch of Paleobotany (1885), The See also:Geographical See also:Distribution of Fossil See also:Plants (1888) and The Status of the Mesozoic Floras of the United States (1905). He is better known, however, for his See also:work in See also:sociology, in which, modifying See also:Herbert See also:Spencer and refuting the Spencerian See also:individualism, he paralleled social with psychological and See also:physical phenomena. His more important See also:works are: Dynamic Sociology (1883, 2nd ed. 1897), Psychic Factors of See also:Civilization (1897), Outlines of Sociology (1898), Sociology and See also:Economics (1899), Pure Sociology (1903), and, with J. Q. Dealy, See also:Text-See also:Book of Sociology (19o5).
See an appreciation by L. Gumplowicz, in See also:Die Zeit (See also:Vienna, loth Aug. 1904) ; reprinted in See also:English in vol. x. of The American See also:Journal of Sociology.
End of Article: WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
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