8 An Appreciation .* 
enough to justify his position in ‘the first rank of investigators. 
Ingenuity and dexterous skill in manipulation he had from the 
first. But it was my privilege to see his intellectual powers unfold 
and apply themselves with success to the most obscure problems. 
Other workers will arise, no doubt, who will attain not less dis¬ 
tinction. But we shall have to wait a long time before we get a 
second Marshall Ward. 
Two notes in his character only remain to be added. From 
first to last his soul was wrapped up in enthusiastic devotion to 
research. It was his whole life to a degree that I have never met 
with among my contemporaries. What we used laughingly to call 
“ The Cause ”—the establishment of a vigorous botanical school 
in this country, independent of Germany, possessed all his energies. 
To this must be added a noble and uncomplaining courage which 
enabled him to face straitened circumstances and declining health 
with unfailing cheerfulness. 
W. T. Thiselton-Dyer. 
17tli December, 1906. 
In response to the Editor’s invitation I am attempting to give 
some personal impressions of Professor Marshall Ward, under 
whom I had the privilege of working for some years. This is a 
task at once both easy and difficult; everyone who knew him will 
realise how vivid an impression of him remains, and yet will realise 
as clearly how inadequate words are to convey that impression to 
others. 
In the scientific world, Professor Ward has become eminent 
in virtue of his brilliant researches and organising power, but as a 
Professor, in his own laboratory, his great success must be traced, 
perhaps, more to his personal character, than to his wonderful 
grasp of the subject which he made his lifework. 
His chief characteristic undoubtedly was his unbounded 
enthusiasm for work, which kept himself and his assistants always 
at high pressure, and his personal charm of manner was such that 
everyone inevitably tried to follow the example which he set. 
Never shall 1 forget his kindly welcome when I came up to 
Cambridge to begin research under his supervision : at all times his 
attitude to his students was that of comrade and fellow-worker, 
rather than Professor and critic. Whilst always ready to help 
others, he was as ready to learn from anyone, even his most 
insignificant student. Even during term-time, when he was already 
