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able mode of spending a holiday. Itis to be hoped many of our local 
botanists will put in an appearance at the hospitable Belgian 
capital 
We regret much to have to record the death of Mr. James Ward, 
one of the oldest and most experienced botanists in the North of 
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intricate and difficult tribes. Up to the last, though afflicted with a 
and crippling disorder, his mind was clear and his love of 
plants unabated, and he took the liveliest interest in any new discovery, 
and few things gave him more pleasure, even when suffering from 
illness, than to receive a specimen of something he had not seen before. 
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Anderson’s observations on this work will be found, in conjunetion with 
those of Mr. Leefe, in vol. viii., page 305, of this Journal. r. Ward 
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shire, where he was engaged in business; but after his retirement from 
business, for family reasons he removed to Redcliffe House, near 
Manchester, where, after a long and painful illness, which latterly 
assumed the form of carditis, he died on the 7th March last, in his 
seventieth year. It is to Mr. Ward and ui 
but most industrious and persevering life-long students that we owe 
the materials which in the skilful hands of our great botanical leaders 
have so altered the face of British Botany since the early days of 
Smith and Withering. 
We last month noted the death of Alexander Irvine. He was 
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him over 600 species, of which he prepared a catalogue, which with 
his permission was utilised many years after (in 1869) by the authors 
Ms is chief botanical companions were 
| Mill. Mr. Irvine afterwards 
went to live at Albury, in Surrey, and subsequently removed to Guild- 
the oceupation of a schoolmaster. Whilst at 
the former place he published, in 1838, his “ London Flora.” The 
