HARRY MARSHALL WARD. 
{With Portrait?) 
Although several notices of his life and appreciations of his work have 
already appeared, some further account of Ward, in the pages of the 
Annals, if only as a tribute of regard and regret, will not be superfluous, 
inasmuch as he was closely associated with the inception and conduct of 
this periodical. 
It will not, however, be necessary to dwell here upon the details of his 
life : it will suffice to mention the main facts. He was born at Hereford 
in 1854, and his scientific life began about twenty years later, in 1875, 
when he attended a course of practical instruction in Botany conducted at 
South Kensington by Sir W. Thiselton-Dyer. So deep was the impression 
made by his ability and enthusiasm upon his teachers, that they urged him, 
if possible, to enter upon a botanical career. The financial difficulties 
having been fortunately overcome, partly by a scholarship at Christ’s 
College, Cambridge, Ward went into residence at the University in 
October, 1876. As an undergraduate he fully availed himself of the 
opportunities of study in all branches of Biology, gaining thereby a 
breadth of knowledge and of outlook that stood him in good stead in 
his subsequent work, and secured for him a first class in the N atural Science 
Tripos of 1879. 
No sooner had he taken his degree than he threw himself into research 
with characteristic ardour, his first published papers (see appended list) 
being dated 1880. At the same time he prosecuted his botanical studies 
under Professor Sachs at Wurzburg and Professor de Bary at Strassburg ; 
and it was doubtless from the latter that he received the impulse which led 
him to devote himself especially to Mycology. But these studies were cut 
short by his appointment by the Government of Ceylon as cryptogamic 
botanist to investigate the Coffee-Leaf Disease that was ravaging that 
island. He spent two years there, and, though he successfully elucidated 
the life-history of the P'ungus, he was unable to discover any effectual 
remedy. On his return to England he was elected a Berkeley Fellow at 
Owens College, Manchester, and became assistant to the late Professor 
Williamson, F.R.S. In 1883 he was elected a Fellow of Christ’s College, 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. XXL No LXXXIV. October, 1907.] 
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