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in the Philosophical Transactions in 1883. Bornet's classical 

 memoir published in 1851 had been the authority on the subject. 

 Ward was able to fill up " large gaps in the knowledge of im- 

 portant details." Another paper published in the Quarterly 

 Journal of Microscopical Science in 1882 on an Asterina illuminates 

 an allied organism. But the crown of all Ward's Ceylon work 

 was the splendid memoir on a Tropical Epiphyllous Lichen 

 which was published by the Linnean Society in 1883. In this 

 he, I think, cleared up much that was obscure in the Mycoidea 

 parasitica described by D. D. Cunningham. Having myself 

 communicated the paper, I shall always remember the pleasure 

 with which I undertook in Ward's absence to give an account of 

 it. He solved the problem with convincing completeness ; he 

 extended Schwendener's lichen theory to a group of obscure 

 epiphyllous organisms of which he afforded, for the first time, a 

 rational explanation. The success with which this was accom- 

 plished placed him at once in the first rank of mycological 

 investigators. 



De Bary was the leading authority on Uredineae ; and in 

 1882 Ward paid a short visit to him at Strasburg to confer with 

 him on his coffee disease work, the accuracy of which de Bary 

 entirely confirmed. There he made the acquaintance of Elfving 

 and completed his Meliola paper. 



The outlook for Ward was now precarious. Fortunately, 

 I found myself sitting next to Sir Henry Roscoe at a Royal 

 Society dinner, and I suggested that Ward, as an old student of 

 Owens College, would be a fitting recipient of a Bishop Berkeley 

 Fellowship for original research. Principal Greenwood recorded 

 the fact that " the very important results already achieved by 

 Mr Ward in Ceylon, in the domain of the higher botany, led 

 the Senate and the Council to make this appointment." In 

 1883, he was appointed Assistant Lecturer and Demonstrator in 

 Botany, and, on the same testimony, "abundantly justified his 

 election." It was a peculiar pleasure to him to relieve the 

 veteran Professor Williamson by taking entire charge of 

 Vegetable Physiology and Histology. His position was, in the 

 same year, made secure by his election to a Fellowship at 

 Christ's College, and he married the eldest daughter of the late 



