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especial pleasure of a visit to Cambridge in 1911, when he was enter- 

 tained by his friend Professor Seward ; on this occasion he took part 

 in excursions in that county, in Suffolk, and in Huntingdonshire in 

 company with Dr. Moss and E. W. Hunnybun, and met Mrs. Gregory 

 and the Caml^ridge botanists. Marshall was a delightful companion 

 on an excursion, and liis enjoyment on such occasions was shared by 

 those who accompanied him. His contributions to the Journal con- 

 tain references to visits to H. C. Levinge (tl896) at MuUingar, to 

 W. B. Boyd (tl918) at Melrose, to the Corstorphines at Arbroath, 

 to Dr. J. Cosmo Melvill and many others ; he stayed with Prof. Bal- 

 four at Edinburgh, and exchanged visits with his old friends Messrs. 

 Shoolbred and Hanbury and the clergy who have already been 

 mentioned, as well as with Mr. Spencer Bickhara, from whose garden 

 he received many interesting things which he returned in kind — for 

 Marshall was as generous with living plants as he was with dried 

 specimens. With botanists nearer home he was in cordial relations, 

 especially with Mr. J. W. White, of Bristol, whose Flora he reviewed 

 in this Journal for 1912 (p. 232) ; his Somersetshire work brought 

 him into contact with Mrs. Downes, Miss lioper, Mr. Sand with and 

 others and his near neighbours Mr. W. Watson of Taunton and 

 Mr, W. D. Miller of Cheddon — the latter rendered him much assistance 

 and was a frequent companion of his rambles. His infrequent visits 

 to London a^orded opportunities for coming into touch with the 

 botanists of Kew and of the National Herbarium ; others he met at 

 the rooms of the Linnean Society, of which he became a Fellow in 

 1887. Indeed, to enumerate all Marshall's botanical acquaintances, 

 either personal or by letter, would be to give a list of contemporary 

 British botanists : to those already mentioned may be added W. H. 

 Beeby (181^9-1910), a friend since 188Jr, of Avhom Marshall wTote a 

 memoir in tliis Journal for 1910 (p. 121) ; Mr. K. W. ScuUy, whose 

 Flora of Kerry he reviewed in this Journal for 1917 (p. 56) ; the 

 Messrs. Groves ; Mr. E. N. Williams ; Dr. Dmce ; Dr. Moss ; 

 Mr. Pugsley ; Mr. Hiern ; Mr. A. B. Jackson — the enumeration might 

 be indetinitely exten(^e\ 



In 1911 Marshall was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Botanical 

 Society of Edinburgh, " in recognition of his great services to British 

 Botany." The distinction gave him legitimate pleasure, for the 

 nmnber of British Honorary Fellows is limited to six. 



In politics Marshall was a strong Tory ; he was indeed a man of 

 strong views upon most subjects, and when he had arrived at a con- 

 clusion — which he sometimes seemed to base on insufficient data — it 

 was not easy to induce him to abandon it. An example of this will 

 be found in his discover}^ of Fesiuca heteropliylla at Witley in Surrey, 

 which he announced (J. Bot. 1889, 95) as '' a new British Festuca.'''' 

 The unhkelihood of this South European species being native in 

 England was pointed out by Mr. Carruthers {op. cit. 216), who 

 showed that the plant had long been on sale as a pasture grass ; 

 Marshall, however (p. 249), warmly defended his position, and main- 

 tained at considerable length (J. Bot. 1890, 47-51) his *' decided 

 opinion" in favour of its nativity, although "a friend" (W. H. Beeby, 

 Avho accompanied Marshall to the station — see J. Bot. 1895, 253) 



