188 THE JOURNAL OP BOTANr 



Mai'quand settled in Guernsey, and at once began to investigate the 

 botany of that and the adjacent islands, o£ which little was then 

 known. He published various papers in the Transactions of the 

 Guernsey Natural History Society, of which body he was elected 

 president in 1894 ; in 1901 appeared his Flora of Guernsey and the 

 Lesser Channel Islands, which is noticed in this Journal for 1902 

 (p. 84). 



In 1896 Marquand married and went to live at Richmond, 

 working for some time in the Kew Herbarium. Later, after a 

 residence in Alderney and a sojourn on the Continent, he returned 

 to Guernsey, where he lived for some years. In 1915 he settled at 

 Totnes, and began to prepare a Flora of South Devon : here he died 

 on Feb. 16 of the present year. 



Marquand was a member of various Societies ; he was elected 

 A.L.S. in 1902, and, in 1906, a corresponding member of the Societe 

 des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, in recognition of his essay on 

 Guernsey Norman dialect and patois plant-names. He is com- 

 memorated in Salvia Marquandii, published by Mr. Druce in this 

 Jom*nal for 1906 (p. 405) and in Verticillium JSIarquandi Massee 

 (1897). His paper headed "Botanical Rambles in Guernsey" 

 ( Journ. Bot. 1905, 205) is a witness to his powers of observation and 

 to his possession of an excellent literary style. 



To the above notice, for which we are indebted to his son, 

 Mr. C. V. B. Marquand, the following appreciation by Mr. James 

 Groves may suitably be appended : — ■ 



" I had the good fortune to know Ernest Marquand particularly 

 well. In the later seventies we had many long days together in the 

 New Forest and in 1880 in Cornwall, and I have kept in touch with 

 him ever since. He was quite the best example of the all-round 

 naturalist I have ever met. He seemed to know all about each living 

 creature, animal or vegetable, even the tiniest, that we came across 

 in our walks. It must not be thought, however, that he was a 

 naturalist only, for I remember our chats during those big days 

 covered a very wide range of subjects, and his keen sense of humour 

 and his dry witty remarks made him a delightful companion. He 

 was thorough and painstaking in all he did, and, not content with 

 knowing plants and animals in the field, he worked assiduously with 

 the microscope at the smaller organisms, of which he was particularly 

 fond. His many papers on the Fauna and Flora of his native island 

 and of the several other districts in which he lived, ranging as they 

 do from man and birds to the unicellular algse, give some idea of the 

 extent of his ' natural knowledge.' His beautiful slides of diatoms 

 are an evidence of his skill and patience as a manipulator. 



"One cannot but regret that his only book, the Flora of 

 Guernsey — excellent and admirable though it is, — consists, like other 

 Floras, to a great extent of names and localities, and that his 

 detached papers are for the most part brief, so that much of the 

 immense store of knowledge of plant and animal life which he 

 accumulated cannot be handed on. He possessed just the qualifica- 

 tions for a successful writer on scientific natural history, having the 

 necessary knowledge, the leisure for field work, excellent literary 

 ability, imagination joined to a love of accuracy, a methodical mind, 



