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his researches in the critical genera and aid him in the field in 
their holiday rambles. Mrs. Marshall helped her husband much 
in the entertainment of their numerous guests, and I have many 
happy recollections of her excellent management of her home and 
charm as a hostess in the man}' visits I paid to their Vicarage, at 
Milford, at Keevil, and finally at West Monkton. It was a grie- 
vous trial to Marshall when his wife became the prey of an 
insidious and deadly disease ; for her cheering presence and 
thoughtful management had contributed to make their joint life 
a very happy one. So when, after a long and depressing illness, 
she passed away early last November, it was not surprising that 
he never recovered the shock and the loss of a wife who had been 
for over thirty years his active partner in all his work, his right 
hand, one might almost say, in the parish as well as in the home 
life. He followed her within about three weeks of her death, 
dying suddenly on the 25th November, 1919, at the early age of 
61, having been born on March 7th, 1858. 
Marshall’s botanical work has been so fully recorded, in the 
article before referred to, that it is needless to repeat the account. 
But it is ordy fair to his memory to put on record here the very 
useful critical work he has done for the Club. He has been one 
of the Referees for many years past, and the pages of the Reports 
testify to the good work he has done in determining the plants 
sent in, especially of the genera Erophila , Viola, Epilobium, Saxi- 
fraga, Hieracium, and Carex. He was a large contributor to the 
Club, and all his specimens were beautifully prepared. A large 
collector, he was a most generous distributor of his specimens, 
giving away all his spare specimens to friends after first selecting 
a good representation of his gatherings for the year to the British 
Museum. I should like also to put on record his liberal contri- 
butions to the sets of Rubi, Hieracia, and Salices brought out by 
my brother and myself. 
One of Marshall’s discoveries, that of Carex chordorhiza L., 
may be recorded, the account of which has been supplied by Dr. 
W. A. Shoolbred, who was with him and Mrs. Marshall at the 
time : “ It was a terrifically hot day, and the plant was growing 
in a very wet black peat-bog. We were both pulling up speci- 
mens, and at the same time being devoured by clegs and midges, 
which we were unable to resist knocking off our faces with our 
black hands ! The effect on our appearance can be better 
imagined than described.” This discovery of the Carex at Alt- 
naharra was announced in “Journ. Bot.”, 1897, p. 450; and an 
article on it appeared in the same Journal, 1898, p. 73. His 
herbarium was bequeathed to Cambridge University. 
E. F. LINTON. 
