Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward

Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward
Born1791
Died4 June 1868
St Leonard's, Sussex
OccupationDoctor
Known forInventor of the glass plant-cases, however, Scottish botanist named A. A. Maconochie had created a similar terrarium almost a decade earlier, but his failure to publish meant that Ward received credit as the sole inventor.

Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791 – 4 June 1868 in St Leonard's, Sussex) was an English doctor who popularised a case for growing and transporting plants which was called the Wardian case.

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