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JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



Vol. 15. MAY 1st, 1918. No. 9. 



OBITUARY NOTICE: 

 ERNEST DAVID MARQUAND, M.A,, A.L.S. 



Bv T. 1^- IK B. TOMLIN, M.A. 



It is with very deep regret that we have to record tlie death of one 

 of our oldest members, E. D. Marquand, who passed away very 

 peacefully at Totnes, on February i6th last, a very few days after 

 his seventieth birthday. Mr. Marquand had been an active member 

 of our Society since 1885, and was an admirable all-round naturalist ; 

 he wrote with equal facility and knowledge on botany, entomology, 

 and conchology, and formed very complete British collections in all 

 of them, the Cryptogamic Herbarium being especially fine. The 

 mollusca, as well as certain other groups, remain in his son's 

 possession. 



Born in Guernsey, on February 8th, 1848, he was educated at one 

 of the large public schools in New York. On returning to England 

 after his father's death, he went through the usual course of training 

 for the law, and for several years held the post of confidential secre- 

 tary to a leading London firm of solicitors. 



He was, however, always a passionate lover of the country, and, 

 abandoning his profession in 1876, went with his mother and brother 

 to live at Brockenhurst, his life henceforward being entirely 

 devoted to the study of natural history. Here he spent three years, 

 studying the fauna and flora of the New Forest, and compiled a list 

 of Phanerogams, which was subsequently embodied in Townsend's 

 " Flora of Hampshire." In 1879 the family moved to Penzance, and 

 here Marquand enjoyed the intimate friendship of two well known 

 Cornish botanists — -John Ralfs and William Curnow. He became a 

 Director of the Town Library, and Hon. Secretary of the Penzance 

 Natural History Society, to whose Transactions he contributed many 

 papers, mainly on entomology, which at that time formed iiis chief 

 study. 



Seven years later he moved to Alphington for a short time, and 

 then, after spending a year abroad, settled down once more in 

 Guernsey in the autumn of 1888. Marquand devoted the next seven 

 or eight years to a steady and unremitting investigation of the local 

 flora, which ultimately resulted in the publication of his "Flora of 



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