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Hospital for Consumption, you did not mention 
my name, although your arguments were the 
same as my own. 
As I must allude to this in my preface, it 
will give much pleasure to state upon your own 
authority, that your observations were quite in- 
dependent of mine. 
Apologising for thus troubling you, I have the 
honour to he, Sir, 
Your most obedient servant, 
N. B. Ward. 
To Sir J. Paxton. 
(O) 
Clapham, August 1852 . 
My dear Sir, 
When Suminsky’s work on the develop- 
ment of Ferns first came into my hands, a strong 
desire to repeat his observations led me to seek 
for seedlings where they were most likely to he 
found, namely, in my own fern case, at Kew, and 
other conservatories ; but I soon found such 
sources were unsatisfactory, for although I could 
obtain abundance of plants in which the organs 
of reproduction (?) described by him were clearly 
discernible, yet I could rarely find the moving 
ciliated bodies said to perform such an important 
part in their development. There were, too, 
differences evidently specific that I could not 
