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aa ied although he may res thought to have come almost 
too late in life to the professor’ s rare In his later part his st was 
Narwaniet Bac: dace Saas Fellow of the Royal and Lin- 
nwean Societies, after whom, as its inventor, the Wardian case is 
named, died, at the ripe age of 77 years, on ‘the 4th of June last. 
He was born in the east end of London, — his father was a 
medical practitioner of repute, and where for the greater part of 
his busy and most useful life he rerciccas a dornted himself to the 
a eeconedon, About twenty years ago he exchanged the 
by rged atmosphere and dingy dwellings of Wellclose 
Square for the pleasant and airy suburb of C Rise, but 
still sprue means’ — to the last in professional practice 
i his various © rg mai connection with ea 
and exertions. We cannot here enter into t interesting sete 
of the invention of the oe familiar Wardian case,—a discovery 
Which grew, out of Mr. Ward’s persistent endeavors to cultivate 
= ‘rane he delighted i in unser the smoke and — of the ve 
ug : 
The writer well remem sae se, first vi Sof growing 
