1918.] IN MEMORIAM. 87 



people who are really interested in Natural History and 

 Archaeology. It seems to me amazing how few persons one 

 meets who have even the most rudimentary knowledge of 

 these things, and yet a little knowledge adds so vastly to the 

 enjoyment of life." 



His friends had hoped, the Great War ended, to see Mr. 

 Marquand in Guernsey again, but it was not to be so. As 

 the long and dreary winter of 1917-18 was drawing to its 

 close, and the northward march of the sun was giving rich 

 promise of the early dawning of another glorious spring-time, 

 Ernest David Marquand, his life-work completed, passed 

 from our sight — but not from our memory. Totnes cemetery, 

 where his mortal remains were laid to rest on February 20th, 

 will hold the dust of Guernsey's premier naturalist, while our 

 Libraries and bookshelves will bring us into enjoyable con- 

 verse with the mind of one whom the island is proud to claim 

 as a son. 



Imbued with deeply religious convictions, convictions 

 that coloured the whole of his life, I like to think of how he 

 must have been conscious of the Creator at the back of the 

 world of nature it was his delight to study — nay, how he must 

 have seen God in everything by which we are surrounded. 

 Nature at all times and in its constantly varying aspects must 

 have spoken to him continually of God, and I can picture his 

 frequent rambles about the countryside deriving their greatest 

 enjoyment from the thought expressed by the Psalmist of old : 

 '• Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy works : and 

 I will rejoice in giving praise for the operations of thy 

 hands." 



The following is a complete list of Mr. Marquand's 

 published papers on Natural History subjects, with the names 

 of the publications in which they appeared. 



Notes on the Lepidoptera of Guernsey. Science Gossip ... Sept. 1874 



Notes on the Flora of Brockentmrst, Hants. Science Gossip Dec. 1876 



Spiranthes aestivalis in the New Forest. Science Gossip . . . June 1878 



The New Forest. Science Gossip June and July 1879 



Ophiocoma neglecta (a Brittle Starfish). Science Gossip ... Mar. 1881 



The Thysanura and Ooleoptera of the Land's End District. 



Transactions of the Penzance Natural History Society ... 1881 



The Beetles of West Cornwall. Annual Report of the Royal 



Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1881 



(For this Essay Mr. Marquand was awarded the Society's 

 first Bronze Medal.) 



The "Wild Bees of the Land's End District. Transactions of the 



Penzance Natural History Society 1882 



