HARRY MARSHALL WARD, F.R.S. 428 
There, was all the spirit of a nterprise about the 
work ; in fact, just those conditions which would catch the fancy 
of an enthusiastic and able t. It is no wonder that Ward, 
tion of his teachers. A scholarship at Christ’s College, Cambridge, 
was secured by him in the following year, and his definite career 
as a botanist was thus opened. 
It was then I first met him, as a member of the practical class 
in botany carried on by Vines in a small room in the Physiological 
Department at Cambridge. The class was a personal effort of 
Vines, rather than any outcome of university organization. We 
can never expect to see again exactly that enthusiasm which 
surrounded the little successes of that small band. Almost daily 
rm 
of the nostril and missionary aspect of Ward as he spoke of “ the 
cause.” 
fier his First-class in the Natural Science Tripos of 1879, 
Ward travelled. First he worked in the laboratories of Sachs and 
Oo 
as been efficiently 
done elsewhere (Nature, Sept. 13th, 1906). It is rather with the 
in a 
can still be traced between the lines of his papers, and be appreciated 
