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a gentleman distinguished as an engineer and an enthusiastic 

 naturalist. From a private school, he entered St. JoIiq's 

 College, Cambridge, in 1871, and graduated as Senior in the 

 Natural Science Tripos of 1874. He then studied for some months 

 in the Zoological Station at Naples, and returned to Cambridge, 

 where for two years lie assisted the late Prof. F. M. Balfour 

 in organizing the newly established classes of Comparative 

 Morphology. In 1876 he obtained the entrance scholarship in 

 Natural Science at St. Bartholomew's Hospital ; and in 1879 

 was appointed Beyer Professor of Zoology in Owens College, 

 Manchester. 



He was the author of a valuable series of memoirs on tbe 

 Cranial Nerves, published between tbe years 1877 and 1881 ; 

 and also wrote a number of very carefully worked out papers on 

 the Peunatulidae, and an able memoir on the nervous system of 

 Antedon. 



Prof. Marshall was a successful and deservedly popular 

 teacher, his clear insight into, and mastery over, the diffi- 

 culties which beset the acquirement of technical knowledge 

 rendering him especially competent as a lecturer and writer. His 

 text-books on Vertebrate Embryology, the Frog, and (conjointly 

 with Mr. Hurst) on ' Practical Zoology,' will bear permanent 

 testimony to his ability. 



His capacity for organization and administrative work was 

 equally remarkable. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the 

 British Association, and it is fully acknowledged that the great 

 success which attended the Manchester meeting was mainly due 

 to his efforts as local secretary. He was an ardent worker for 

 the progress of the Victoria University, and as Secretary, and 

 afterwards Chairman, of the Board of Studies he rendered in- 

 valuable aid in the early days of that institution. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Eoyal Society in 1885, and 

 served upon the Council for the years 1891-2. He was elected 

 a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1891. 



Prof. Marshall's death, which took place on the 31st December, 

 1893, resulted from a fall down a precipice on Scawfell. The 

 scientitic world loses in him a brilliant student, and his friends 

 one of those rare spirits whose presence always stimulated, and 

 whose geniality never changed. 



Feancis Polkin&hoene Pascoe was born at Penzance on 

 September 1st, 1813. He was educated at the grammar school 

 of that town, and subsequently studied medicine at St. 

 Bartholomew's Hospital. Having obtained his M.E.C.S. in 

 1835, he was shortly afterwards appointed Surgeon in the Eoyal 

 Navy, and served on the Australian, West Indian, and 

 Mediterranean stations. He retired from the service in 1843, 

 married, and settled near St. Austell. Beiug left a widower in 

 1851, he removed to London and devoted himself to Natural 



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