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of genera and species of British plants which have an 
aggregate character. The genus Huphrasia is the last one 
upon which he has worked, and his monograph of the British 
forms appeared in the “ Journal of Botany,” as did the majority 
ot his other papers. His chief botanical work was, however, 
his “ Flora of Hampshire,” which appeared in 1883, and of 
which a second edition was issued a couple of years ago. 
Though the author of its Flora, Townshend was connected 
with Hampshire for but a short period, dating from 1865 
(when he settled at Wickham) to 1874, when he succeeded 
to the family place, Wormington Hall, Warwickshire, where 
he resided during the rest of his life. He was Unionist 
member of Parliament for the Stratford-on-Avon division of 
Warwickshire from 1886-1892, and he led the life of an 
“ideal country squire.” Elected a non-resident Fellow of our 
Society in 1846, he was at the time of his death one of our 
oldest Fellows. An excellent notice (with portrait) of 
Townshend, from the pen of Mr. Britten, appears in the 
“ Journal of Botany” of April 1906, from which the foregoing 
facts have been derived. 
Harry MarsHaLL Warp. — The heaviest loss which 
botanical science has experienced during the past year is 
that of Professor Marshall Ward of Cambridge. He was 
one of our six honorary British Fellows, and if I have 
left notice of him to the last it is because what he has 
done has so informed our generation, and has so pointed 
the way for the future in the lines of botany in which he 
was expert, that I wish to use the occasion of this address 
for a survey of some of the work he accomplished. In these 
days of rapid absorption of new facts and ideas into the 
general stock of knowledge to serve as starting points for new 
discoveries of facts and further suggestions, the exact service 
of individuals is apt to be forgotten or overlooked. And 
therefore, although the retrospect of another generation will 
assuredly differ somewhat from the view we are able to take 
of the work of contemporaries, it is well that we put on 
record our opinion, especially in the case of those whom we 
regard as brilliant. 
Into this category Marshall Ward comes. There has been 
in our time no more effective teacher, using the term in its 
