- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Malthus Ward Grave site
- Date of Original:
- 1708/2022
- Subject:
- Sepulchral monuments--Georgia--Athens
Cemeteries--Georgia--Athens
Ward, Malthus A. (Malthus Augustus), 1794-1863--Tomb
Ward, Malthus A. (Malthus Augustus), 1794-1863 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The Athens Garden Club installed a marker at the grave site of Malthus Ward, the first professor of natural history at the University of Georgia, in 1987. After leaving the university in 1842, Ward opened a commercial garden in Athens and founded the Horticultural Society of Georgia.
Photograph of the Athens, Georgia gravesite of Malthus Ward, who was the first professor of natural history at the University of Georgia, as well as a founding member of the Horticultural Society of Georgia. The Athens Garden Club installed this marker at Ward's gravesite in 1987. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/malthus-ward-1794-1863/m-9625/
- Rights Holder:
- Photograph by LeAnna Biles Schooley
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/science-medicine/malthus-ward-1794-1863
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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