Horticultural Society and Wardian cases became popular. He attempted to make a greenhouse at the Clapham garden on the principle of the Wardian case. This was however critiqued by John Lindley in the Gardeners' Chronicle, who wrote that "when it is opened and shut from day to day, it has no more right to the name [of Wardian case] than a common greenhouse". Lindley also wrote saying that Ward had an inordinate vanity and a desire to be "recognised [as] a second Newton". Dr Ward delivered a lecture on his discovery of a way to preserve plants in 1854 to the Royal Society at the Chelsea Physic Garden. He also worked on microscopy and helped in the development of the Chelsea Physic Garden as a member of the board. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1852. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward died at St Leonards in Sussex and is buried in an unmarked grave in West Norwood Cemetery He was honoured in 1837, when botanists William Henry Harvey and William Jackson Hooker named a species of moss from South Africa after him, Wardia. References Other sources Allen, D.E. The Victorian Fern Craze. London: Hutchinson, 1969. (p 8-9) Allen, D.E. The Naturalist in Britain - A Social History. London: Allen Lane, 1976. Desmond, Ray "The problems of transporting plants". In The Garden: a Celebration of One Thousand Years of British Gardening. Harris J ed. London, 1979, pp. 99–104. Hooker, J.D. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, FRS, FLS. Gardeners' Chronicle, 1868, pp. 655–6. Minter, S. The Apothecaries' Garden: a History of the Chelsea Physic Garden. London, 2002. External links Biography Norwood cemetery Scan of Ward's publication 1791 births 1868 deaths 19th-century English medical doctors English botanists Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Burials at West Norwood Cemetery