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him a predispositionist. After two years in Ceylon he 

 returned to England, where after three years as Fellow 

 at Owen College, Manchester, he was called to the chair 

 of botany in the Forestry Department of the Royal 

 Indian Engineering College at Coopers Hill. While 

 here he naturally interested himself in forest botany. 



H. Marshall Ward. 



The greatest English phytopathologist. (From a portrait in "Makers 



of British Botany.") 



His chief pathologic contributions during this time were 

 his book, Timber and some of its diseases'; Diseases of 

 plants^ (translated into Russian in 1891); and funda- 



' Ward, H. M.: Timber and some of its diseases, pp. I-VIII + 1-295, 

 1909. 



2 Ward, H. M.: Diseases of plants, pp. 1-196, 1896. (Published by 

 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, in the Romance of Science 

 Series.) What appears to be a first edition of this appeared in 1889 

 under the same title and from the same pubhshers. 



