William Marshall

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William Marshall (1815-1890) == biography == <William Marshall (1815-1890) of Ely, Cambs, solicitor and sometime coroner for Ely, botanist;

son of William Marshall of Ely, solicitor and naturalist; and elder brother of John Marshall, FRS, (1818-1891), anatomist, Professor of Surgery at UCL.

Marshall corresponded with J S Henslow, C C Babington, Rev L (Jenyns) Blomefield and Charles Darwin. An account of his correspondence with Blomefield is given by Vaughan in BSBI News 62: 32-33 (1992).

In 1852 his letters concerning the life-history of Elodea canadensis, the American pond weed, recently introduced to the British Isles, were published in the 'Cambridge Independent Press'.>

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references and external links

• Kent DH & Allen DE. 1984. British and Irish Herbaria. London.