424 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
His close observation led to a saben defect of style. His papers 
were apt to read rather like labor notes, than as the outcome 
Ginger-beer Plant, and on the Brown Rusts: all handled on a 
basis of personal amet some moving question of the day. si 
as it was probably the most costly, of his papers was that 
on a Lily L Disease (1888), in aay he meiablighiod the ferment- citi 
of a plant parasite. He spent his whole summer upon it, and 
remember visiting him at ena and remonstrating with him for 
not taking his proper holiday; that aia he broke down. His 
health was never strong, and one not help seeing that the 
dominant so eas which brought esi to the front, tended also 
to rier ss 
s. This Ward saw 
completed. And now w, when the reward should be his of wilekiae 
a growing school as it reaps the advantage of his work, he has been 
removed. ‘lo those who took part with him in the renaissance in 
the study of the — plant in Great Britain, his death appears as 
the first break in the circle; a reminder that thirty years cannot 
the Phanerogams to organisms lower in the scale. ' is indeed 
a danger, not 1 ap but actually with us now, of as of the 
oe enquiry. mbined with the spreading of 
over the fields of physiol and applied botany, has 
depleted the ranks of phaner tanists ; and now it comes 
to this, that the empire which bias the larges t share of the 
s surface is Papaarawe, — with eee students of the 
foweving plants. It is for the universities, in co-operation with 
