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to have been recognized by the State, but Ward 

 was quite happy without any such recognition, 

 and after his death they found in his own copy 

 of his work a quotation from the old Spectator : 

 " The consciousness of approving oneself a 

 benefactor to mankind is the noblest recom- 

 pense for being so." Ward had lived long 

 enough to learn that to have been able to do a 

 good and useful deed is its own and best reward, 

 and to have done the reverse, its own and worst 

 punishment. 



This good old naturalist died rather suddenly 

 in 1868. Sir Joseph Hooker (then Dr. Hooker) 

 wrote of Ward : " It would be difficult to say 

 which of the many excellent traits of his estim- 

 able character was most worthy of imitation, his 

 love of truth, or his appreciation in others of 

 generous qualities far inferior to his own ; his 

 unselfish regard for the happiness of those 

 around him ; or the absence of all vanity, 

 littleness, or self love ... in the memory 

 of those who knew him, he will live as a type of 

 a genial, upright and most amiable man, an 

 accomplished practitioner, and an enthusiastic 

 lover of Nature." 



