Description: A five-page recollection of Henry B. Ward and instruction in zoology and parasitology by William Walter Cort, M.A. '11 and Ph.D. '14 and assistant in zoology (1909-12), including comments on Ward's laboratory, assistantships, graduate students, fish parasites, Ward's work with scientific organizations, research publications and parasitology in the United States.
The series includes a 10-page autobiography of Dr. Cort prepared from notes taken in 1966 for the Columbia University Oral History Collection and distributed on his 80th birthday, April 28, 1967.