86 IN MEMORIAM. 



Cornwall Polytechnic Society was awarded to him in 1881 for 

 an Essay on the Beetles of West Cornwall, and on the recom- 

 mendation of the .Judges the paper was printed in the 

 Society's Annual Report. The following year, the same 

 Society holding an Exhibition, he was awarded the Silver 

 medal for a large and full collection of Cornish Bees. 



Mr. Marquand had the honour of being associated with 

 several distinguished Societies. In March 1902 he was 

 elected an Associate of the Linnean Society of London, in 

 December 1904 a corresponding member of the Societe des 

 Sciences Naturelles et Mathematiques de Cherbourg, in 

 November 1906 a corresponding member of the Societe 

 d'Archeologie d'Avranches (in recognition of his Essay on 

 the Guernsey Norman Dialect and its Patois Plant names) 

 and in 1907 a corresponding member of the Cardiff Natural- 

 ists Society. 



Two species of plants were named after Mr. Marquand, 

 the one, a fungus, VerticiUium Marquandii, so named by Mr. 

 George Massee, of Kew, in 1897, the other an undescribed 

 species of Salvia occurring at Le Vazon, in Guernsey. The 

 latter plant was named after Mr. Marquand in 1906 by Mr. 

 G. Claridge Druce, M.A., the eminent Botanist, who in 

 making his discovery known to the world in the Journal of 

 Botany for December, where the plant is described and figured, 

 wrote : " 1 have searched through the Herbaria of the British 

 Museum and Kew, but can find no named plant that agrees 

 with the Vazon Salvia, which I therefore venture to distin- 

 guish by the name of a botanist who has done such excellent 

 work in the island Avhere it grows." So the plant became 

 known to Science as Salvia Marquandii, sp. n. 



" Such excellent work " — that was Mr. Druce's estimate 

 of Mr. Marquand's labours, and there can be no other. 

 What he achieved is preserved for all time in the " Flora " 

 and in the pages of this Society's Transactions. He tried to 

 implant in others his love of nature, and in conversation and 

 by writing continually demonstrated the soul-satisfaction, not 

 to speak of the mental enlightenment that results from 

 nature-study. The contemporary of Mr. Derrick, Mr. Luff, 

 Mr. Sharp and other workers who had predeceased him, Mr. 

 Marquand had grown anxious in recent years as to the 

 future of Natural History here, and in correspondence with 

 the writer had on more than one occasion given expression to 

 his fear. Thus in 1912 he wrote : " One by one the Guernsey 

 Scientists are dropping out, and who is rising up to replace 

 them ? " And again ; w I almost fear you have not now many 



