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students and made it needful that I should have assist- 

 ance. In 1878 Mr. Marcus Hartog was appointed 

 demonstrator, yet I was still Professor of Comparative 

 Anatomy, Zoology, and of Botany. The increasing 

 demands on the part of examining bodies for labora- 

 tory work, however, made this impossible, and in 

 the following year I resigned the Chair of Zoology 

 and Animal Physiology, that for the future I might 

 have time to fulfil the duties of my Botanical Chair 

 as they required to be performed in the then 

 advanced condition of botanical science. 



In 1880 Professor Milnes Marshall was appointed 

 to the new Chair. For enthusiasm and energy, 

 backed by a profound knowledge of the fundamentals 

 of his subject, Milnes Marshall was one of the most 

 remarkable young men it was ever my lot to be 

 associated with. Unhappily, even as I am penning 

 these lines, we have to speak of him in the past 

 tense. He was unfortunately killed a few days ago 

 by falling down one of the precipitous slopes of 

 Scaw Fell. 



Several years previously I had had in one of my 

 evening classes for botany a young man of the 

 name of Marshall Ward. I then lost sight of him 

 but subsequently found he had been pursuing a 

 brilliant course, partly at South Kensington, partly 

 at Cambridge, and lastly in Germany. He then 

 returned to Owens as my demonstrator and assistant 

 lecturer. After holding this office for a while he 

 accepted a Government commission to Ceylon, 



