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widest acceptation. The present general knowledge of, the 
present recognition of, the importance of plant pathology and 
of disease caused by and affecting plant life in relation to 
great industries in this country, is in great measure an out- 
come of his teaching, whilst the attitude of science to the 
problem of biology involved in the relationship of organism 
to organism has solid support in the results of his researches. 
In order to bring within near focus the course of his life, 
I give here a chronological table and also a list of his 
pubheations, In the preparation of these I have been 
greatly assisted by Mrs. Marshall Ward. 
Chronology. 
1854. Born at Hereford, eldest son of Francis Marshall 
Ward. 
About 1864? Lincoln Cathedral School; and private school at 
Nottingham. 
1874, South Kensington, under Huxley. 
1875. Owens College, Manchester. 
1876-79. Christ’s College, Cambridge. 
1876. Scholar of Christ’s College, Cambridge. 
1876. Assistant at South Kensington, 
1877. Assistant at Owens College. 
1879. B.A., with First Class Honours in Nat. Sei. Tripos, 
Cambridge. 
Wiirzburg, with Sachs, 
Lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge. 
1880-82, Cryptogamic Botanist to Ceylon Government. 
1882. Strassburg with De Bary. 
Berkeley Fellow, Owens College. 
1883. M.A. , Cambridge. 
Assistant Lecturer, Owens College. 
Married eldest daughter of Francis Kingdon, Esq., 
Exeter. 
Fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge. 
Assistant Lecturer and Demonstr ator, Owens College. 
1885. Professor of Botany, Cooper’s Hill College. 
1886. F.L.S. 
1887. F.R.H.LS. 
1887-89. Council of Linnzean Society. 
1888, F.R.S. 
1888-92. Examiner in Botany, University of Edinburgh. 
18906. Croonian Lecturer. 
1892. Lecturer at Institute of Brewing. 
D.Sc., Cambridge. 
1893. Royal Medal. 
1894. Hon. Fellow, Institute of Brewing. 
Lecturer at Royal Institution. 
Hon. Fellow, Manchester Literary and Philosophical 
Society. 
Examiner in Botany, University of London. 
1895. Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge. 
