2 THE JOUKNAL OF BOTANY 



this Journal for 191^ (p. 120) as Hieracium Isahellce : the following 

 note is appended to the description : — " I name this striking plant after 

 my wife Fanny Isabel (nee Foster), in commemoration of our recent 

 * silver wedding ' and in gratitude for her constant sympathetic com- 

 panionship on so many botanical excursions, over and above the fact 

 that some of the gatherings on which this species is founded were 

 made by her while I was amusing myself by tly-hshing on Loch 

 Ericht, with indifferent success." 



In 1890 Marshall became Vicar of Milford, Surrey, where he 

 remained for ten years ; it was during his residence here that Mr. S. 

 T. Dunn published his Flora of South-west Surrey (1893), in the pre- 

 face to which Marshall is thanked for " his very kind help and 

 encouragement." In 1900-1902 he was Curate-in-charge of Laving- 

 ton-cum-Graftliam, Sussex, and in 1902-4 Vicar of Keevil, Wilts ; 

 towards the end of the latter year he became Kector of West Monk- 

 "ton — a position which he retained until Michaelmas last. He had 

 purchased an estate at Tidenham, near Chepstow, which on account of 

 local association he named " Offa's Dyke," wdiere he had hoped to 

 pass the remainder of his life and to help Mr. Riddelsdell with his 

 Flora of Gloucestershire. But this was not to be. 



For some years Marshall had suffered from fits of depression. As 

 time went on, these increased in frequency and intensity : in the 

 summer of 1918 he had a serious nervous breakdown, fainting in the 

 pulpit. He had for some time been complaining that he felt 

 unequal to his clerical duties, and, acting on medical advice, as soon 

 as he recovered from the attack began to make arrangements for 

 resigning his living. The plans were completed in due course, and it 

 was hoped that the withdrawal from clerical w^ork would relieve the 

 pressure, and that the interest of his new surroundings would restore 

 his cheerfuhiess. But the death of his only brother, to wdiom he 

 was much attached, and the illness of his wdfe, deepened his depression. 

 A note which I sent him at the beginning of September was answered 

 by a request that I would not trouble him with botanical matters, 

 and in a subsequent letter he told me that he was giving up botany. 

 I did not take this seriously, but I have since learned that he had 

 withdrawn from membership of the two Exchange Clubs. His wdfe's 

 death at the beginning of November naturally greatly affected him ; 

 in a letter Avritten shortly afterwards — the last I received from him — 

 he gave a sad account of his own condition, and hinted at financial 

 troubles as to which there was not the slightest ground for concern. 

 From tliis state of despondency Marshall never recovered ; he was 

 found lying dead in his room on the 25th of November. 



It does not appear that Marshall took up botany at Marlborough, 

 though the school, under the leadership of T. A. Preston, w^as, at the 

 time of his residence there, keen on the subject: the only reference 

 to him in the Reports of the College Natural History Society is in 

 that for Midsummer, 1877 — the year of his leaving, — in connection 

 with ornithology, in which he always retained a strong interest. The 

 Journal of his visit to America (June-August, 1881), which contains 

 numerous small specimens collected en route, shows that at that period 

 he had considerable knowledge of plants, and it was probably while at 



