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teacher by co-operating in the science classes at South 
Kensington (1876), and at the Owens College, Manchester 
(1877), and by lecturing at Newnham College, Cambridge 
(1879). 
After graduation he spent two years in Ceylon as Crypto- 
gamist to the Ceylon Government, and on his return became 
Berkeley Fellow of Owens College (1882), and subsequently 
assistant lecturer and demonstrator in Botany there (1883). 
Meanwhile his old college at Cambridge elected him to a 
Fellowship (1883). In the same year he married the eldest 
daughter of Francis Kingdon, Esq., of Exeter. Two children 
survive. 
The year 1884 nearly brought Marshall Ward to 
Scotland as Professor in Glasgow. That he did not come 
was a disappointment to him. I may take this opportunity 
to tell the story of how this came about, and to remove 
misapprehension that has gathered round the circumstances. 
My election from the Regius Chair of Botany in Glasgow 
to the Sherardian Chair in the University of Oxford at the 
beginning of March 1884 left but a short period for the 
election of my successor by the Crown before the opening 
of the summer session. The experience of the University 
of Glasgow in a preceding vacancy did not encourage it to 
risk an appointment delayed beyond the beginning of the 
session, and I was therefore invited by the University to 
carry on the work of Professor of Botany during the following 
summer session, As my Oxford work did not begin until 
October and the Vice-Chancellor acquiesced, I accepted the 
invitation. The University resolved not to accept my 
resignation and not to intimate a vacancy to the Government 
until the close of the summer session. This information 
was conveyed to several aspirants to the Chair, amongst 
them to Marshall Ward. The session was about three 
weeks gone when my colleague in the Chair of Anatomy 
(Professor Cleland) received a letter from Professor W. R. 
M‘Nab of Dublin to the effect that he had been appointed by 
Sir William Harcourt, then Home Secretary (in whose hands 
such appointments then were), to the Chair of Botany at 
Glasgow, and asking information as to my movements. 
How this appointment came to be made I do not know. 
The University of Glasgow would not accept it, holding, 
