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adoption of tlie closed glazed cases for the transmission of plants 
from one part of the world to another, and which have been the 
means of introducing the tea plant for cultivation into Assam and 
the Cinchonas, into India, as well as enriching our conservatories 
with the choicest productions of nature. 
It was whilst at Wellclose Square, that he held evening parties 
for microscopical research, and it was at these meetings the first 
idea occurred which led to the formation of this Society, to which 
for many years Mr. Ward acted as Treasurer. 
He was a Fellow of the Koyal Society and of the Linnsean 
Society; and from an experience of more than twenty years, I 
can testify that he was indeed a warm and kind friend. 
[The President then read from the * Gardener's Chronicle ' Dr. 
Hooker's well-deserved eulogy of Mr. Ward, with remarks of the 
services rendered by the " Wardian case."] 
Dr. William Bird Herapath, born in 1829, was the eldest son 
of the late Mr. William Herapath, of Bristol, the well-known 
toxicologist and professional analyst, whom he only survived eight 
months. For some years he assisted his father in the laboratory 
and at the medical school. He displayed precocious talents for 
chemistry, evidenced by the various pubhc lectures he delivered 
when only from fourteen to nineteen years of age. Having studied 
at the Bristol Medical School and London Hospital, he took the 
M.B. degree of the University of London in 1844, passing with 
honours in no less than six different branches, and seven years later 
he became an M.D. of the same body. He was also a Member of 
the Koyal College of Surgeons. For some years he acted as surgeon 
to St. Peter's Hospital (the Bristol poorhouse), and later he was 
medical attendant to various schools under the British Charity 
Trustees, and medical referee to several assurance companies. His 
practice was extensive and successful, and his diagnosis marked by 
much shrewdness and penetration. 
How sincerely he was regretted by the humble classes was 
evidenced by the sympathizing throngs who lined the streets as he 
was borne to the grave. He communicated to various medical 
societies, and to the pages of the 'Lancet,' 'Medical Times,' and 
other journals, numerous valuable papers on pathological and pro- 
fessional subjects ; and of late years was much employed in causes 
requiring toxicological or chemical evidence, for which his wide 
range of attainments peculiarly fitted him. At the Meeting of the 
British Medical Association at Bristol, in 1863, he delivered an 
address on "Chemistry in its relations to Medicine," marked by 
much originality of thought and eloquence. He was early elected 
a Fellow of the Koyal Society of Edinburgh, and in 1859 the 
Fellowship of the Koyal Society of London (a distinction which 
he greatly coveted) rewarded his brilliant series of " Kesearches on 
