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as was true, that no vacancy had been announced by it to 
the Crown, and that the selection had not been made from 
an adequate field of candidates, and in particular mentioned 
Marshall Ward’s name; at the same time I was asked to 
defer my resignation until the University desired me to 
send it in; this did not happen until near the close of the 
year, and then both M‘Nab and Marshall Ward were 
passed over. 
At Manchester Ward remained until 1888, when he took 
up the appointment of Professor of Botany at Cooper's 
Hill College, a college which this year (1906) has ceased 
to exist. There he remained for ten years, until, on the 
death of Babington, he was called in 1895 as Professor 
of Botany to the University of Cambridge. For some years 
he had been suffering from an ailment that wrought sore 
havoe upon his frame, and his death in August last, at 
the early age of fifty-three, came as no surprise to those 
who had seen him recently. 
By his death a warm friend and keen man of science has 
gone from us, to whose admirable personal qualities many 
tributes have been paid by pens of those who knew him well.? 
Here I will only say that my sense of individual loss is deep, 
for our friendship began in 1880, as we voyaged to the Kast, 
and was strengthened by intimate association in many things 
during after years. 
As a teacher in the institutions to which he was attached, 
the dominant characteristic of Marshall Ward was his bound- 
less enthusiasm, which overflowed to his pupils. The gift of 
ready and lucid exposition was his, and he thought clearly. 
His facile draughtsmanship, giving life to his delineations, 
added to his power. Full of knowledge of his subject and its 
bearings, he at times overwhelmed his hearers with apt refer- 
ence and technica! illustration. Always interesting in the 
lecture hall,in the laboratory his dexterity and industry were 
a stimulating example to the beginner, to whom he rightly 
gave much personal attention, and his direct help and sug- 
gestive outlook encouraged the advanced pupil. 
But Ward’s teaching was not only thus confined. He 
1 See Vines in Nature, September 1906 ; Balfour in Cambridge Reporter, 
October 1906 ; Bower in Journal of Botany, 1906. A sketch of his life, 
with portrait, will appear in Annals of Botany for 1907. 
