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him assistance with the parcels : Messrs. E. F. D. Bloom, M.A., 
B.Sc., A. W. Dawson, M.A., H. F. Hardwick, H. C. Littlebury, 
R. Morse, and F. Ransom. 
J. E. LITTLE, M.A., 
( Distributor , 1919 — 20.) 
EDWARD SHEARBURN MARSHALL, M.A., F.L.S. 
So full a memoir of E. S. M. has appeared in the January 
number of the “Journal of Botany,” from the pen of the Editor 
of the Journal, that another is hardly needed, and a very short 
sketch is aimed at here, by way of acknowledgment of the Club’s 
indebtedness to Mr. Marshall, who for some years has been one 
of its most helpful referees. 
Marshall was just ten years my junior, and consequently T 
had taken my degree and gone down some years before he came 
up to Oxford. This was in 1877, when, coming from Marl- 
borough College, he gained a Scholarship and an Exhibition at 
Brasenose College. He took a 2nd Class in Classical Modera- 
tions (1879) and a 3rd Class in History ; B. A. in 1881 ; M.A. in 
1884. He was trained for Holy Orders at Wells Theological 
(College, where he made the acquaintance of the Rev. R. P. 
Murray, who already was working at the “Flora of Somerset” 
(in 1882), and who a year later became Vicar of Shapwick in 
Dorset. From him Marshall got much impetus in the pursuit of 
botany, and afterwards recalled him as “ his first real helper in 
the study of critical plants.” 
He entered on his clerical career by acting as Curate in the 
Marlborough College Mission, Tottenham, 1883—85 ; he was 
Curate of Witley, Surrey, from 1885 to 1890 ; elected F.L.S. in 
1887 ; for ten years he was Vicar of Milford, Surrey, 1890-1900 ; 
hen for two years Curate of Graff ham-with-Lavington, Sussex ; 
md for two years more Vicar of Keevil, Wilts., till 1904, when 
le became Rector of West Monkton, where he remained till 
Vlichaelmas last year, when he retired from active work. He 
uicl suffered for some years from fits of nervous depression, and 
n 1918 had a serious breakdown, which led eventually to his 
esigning the living at Monkton, and removing to a place he had 
'Ought near Chepstow. 
Unfortunately he did not live to enjoy his new home. His 
dfe, whom he had met while still a curate at Witley, and 
larried there in 1887, had become his companion in botanical 
.ursuits, and her cheerful disposition had done a great deal to 
Riven and brighten his home life, as well as encourage him in 
