492, THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
the old gentleman, though he saw the plant growing, was not likely 
to find it again. Another plant-lover in the same district, Atkins, 
whose name is familiar to cyclamen-growers, adopted another expe- 
ient. A neighbour collector, named Wintle, remarked to him that 
vad However advisable in the case 
of bulbous or rhizomatous plants, this plan is, as I have said, likely 
d 
HARRY MARSHALL ‘WARD, F.R.S. 
Tae death on August 26th of Prof. H. Marshall Ward has 
removed all too soon one of the most strenuous workers among 
British botanists. He was closely identified with the remarkable 
re-awakening of anatomical and physiological study in the land 
that gave birth to both of those branches of the science ; conse- 
out rivals elsewhere; it was the period of 
Plantarum, een monumental work to wh 
matists have been so \ beholden. But outside systematic 
botany the science was virt ally dead in Britain, except for some 
few individual efforts. Darwin was rivately at work at Down, 
not yet 
It was into this arena that Ward entered in 1875, with all the 
advantages which follow from being on the crest of a wave of 
change. For he came to South Kensington as a student to 
one of the first of those summer classes for teachers which had 
just been founded under the direction of Huxley. The course 
assisted by Vines. 
selton Dyer, assi 
The former was fresh from the proof-sheets of the translation of 
