Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward
1791–1868
Botanist and physician. Inherited his father’s medical practice in Whitechapel, London. Examiner in botany for the Society of Apothecaries, 1836–54. Invented the Wardian case for transporting plant specimens. An original member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh and a founding member of the Microscopical Society. FRS 1852.
Sources
R. Desmond 1994
DNB
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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