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stated that Brefeld denies the existence of a sexual mode of reproduc- 
tion in the fungi, and is merciless in his attacks on all authors 
entertaining such an idea. 
In England, only one person, Professor Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 
has consistently worked at Mycology along the lines I have en- 
deavoured to indicate. During his residence in Ceylon, the life- 
history and morphology of Hemileia vastatrix, the terrible Coffee 
disease, were elaborated; and since his return to this country several 
very important works have appeared, including the classic entitled, 
“A Lily Disease,” which exhibits an insight and grasp of the subject 
rarely equalled. Now that Professor Marshall Ward is located at 
Cambridge, the growth of a British school of Mycology is simply a 
matter of time. 

