> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 69](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066409) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11407-1) LSID 11407-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1966819) QID Q1966819 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Ward, Nathaniel Bagshaw (1791-1868), British physician and botanist; inventor (1829) of the Wardian case; examiner in botany to the Society of Apothecaries 1836-1854; master (1854) and later treasurer of this Society; co-founder of the Microscopical Society; practicing in London; in retirement at St. Leonard's, Sussex. **Abbreviated name**: *N.B. Ward* \[standard form in IPNI: *N.B.Ward*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (p.p.; purchased from estate 1869), [[Collection OXF|OXF]] (p.p.); further material in [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FRS|FRS]], [[Collection GL|GL]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection NMW|NMW]], [[Collection WAR|WAR]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 621; Barnhart 3: 458 (d. 4 Jun 1868); BB p. 116; BM 5: 2264; Bossert p. 426; Clokie p. 261; CSP 6: 265, 8: 196; Desmond p. 640; DNB 20: 785-786 (G.S. Boulger); Herder p. 367; Hortus 3: 1206; Jackson p. 81, 255; Lenley p. 427, 472; PR 9992, ed. 1: 10979; Rehder 5: 902; Tucker 1: 14. #### Biofile - Allen, D.E., Victorian fern craze 7, 8, 10-16, 22-23, 24, 40. 1969; The naturalist in Britain 79, 93, 133-134, 135, 137. 1976. - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 26: 480. 1868 (d.); Flora 51: 304. 1868 (d.); Gard. Chron. 1868: 655-656 (obit., with note by J.D. Hooker); J. Bot. 6: 223. 1868 (obit. not.), 8: 208. 1870 (remainder herbarium for sale); Proc. Linn. Soc. 1864: cxii-cxix (obit.), 1888-1889: 41 (portr. by J.P. Knight in LINN); Proc. Roy. Soc, London 18: ii-iv. 1870. - Balfour, J.H., Trans. bot. Soc. Edinburgh 9: 427-430. 1868 (obit.). - Barber, L., The heyday of natural history 1820-1870: 111-115, 117, 120, 124. 1980. - Boase, F., Modern English biography 3: 1194. 1965. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 250.1, 255.70, 278.40. 1980. - Etter, H., Morton Arbor. Quart. 9(4): 49-55. 1973 ("Out of a Chrysalis a Wardian case", story of development). - Gray, A., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 46: 273. 1868 (d.), 47: 141-142. 1869; Sci. papers 2: 349-350. 1889. - Hadfield, M., Brit. gardeners 298-299. 1980. - Huxley, L., Life letters J.D. Hooker 1: 47, 212, 338, 2: 8. 1918. - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 84. 1957. - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 267. 1984. - Michael, A.D., J.R. micr. Soc. 1895: 2-3. - Nelmes, E. and W. Cuthbertson, Curtis's Bot. Mag. Dedications 99-100. 1931 (biogr. sketch, portr.). - Porter, D.M., Missouri Bot. Gard. Bull. 59(2): 16-20. 1971 ("Mr. Ward's portable greenhouse"). - Schoenermarck, H. v., Garden J. 24(5): 148-154. 1974 (portr., general account). #### Eponymy *Wardia* W.H. Harvey et W.J. Hooker ex W.J. Hooker (1837). ### Publications ##### n.16.703. On the growth of plants in closely glazed cases **Title** *On the growth of plants in closely glazed cases*... London (John Van Voorst,...) 1842. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Growth pl. glaz. cases*. **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1842 (p. vi: Mar 1842), p. \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-95. *Copies*: G, HH, NY, PH. *Ed. 2*: 1852 (p. x: Sep 1852), p. \[i\]-x, \[xi, cont.; xiii, err.\], \[1\]-143. *Copies*: HH, NY. *Preliminary publ*.: *Improved method of transplanting plants*, Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 317-320. 1836, reprinted as *On the growth of plants without open exposure to air*. London 1836.