suffering from winter cough and occasional attacks of gout. These 

 conditions doubtless predisposed him to the acute attack of bronchitis 

 which proved fatal after an illness of a few days' duration. 



Professor Marshall was in his 73rd year at the time of his death, 

 having been born on the tlth September, 1818, at Ely, where his 

 father practised as a solicitor. After having received his education 

 at a private school, John Marshall was apprenticed to a surgeon at 

 Wisbeach, and in 1839 began his medical studies at University Col- 

 lege and Hospital, then the largest and most popular school in 

 England. Here he speedily attracted the favourable notice of his 

 teachers more particularly of Mr. Quain and of Dr. Sharpey. His 

 acquaintance with Dr. Sharpey speedily ripened into a close intimacy 

 and a warm friendship which continued unbroken till his death. 



Mr. Marshall became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 in 1844. He' now established, himself as a practitioner in Camden 

 Town, was appointed. Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in 

 University College, and subsequently made Curator of the Ana- 

 tomical Museum. In 1848 he was appointed Assistant-Surgeon to 

 the hospital, and in 1849 became a Fellow of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons. For many years he taught practical and operative surgery 

 at University College ; but it was not until 1866 that he was ap- 

 pointed full Surgeon with charge of in-patients to the hospital. This 

 important step was gained on Mr. Quain's retirement from the 

 hospital, and in the same year, on Mr. Erichsen being transferred 

 from the post of Professor of Surgery in the college to that of 

 Holme Professor of Clinical Surgery in the hospital, Mr. Marshall 

 succeeded him in the college professorship. Mr. Marshall held this 

 appointment till 1885, when failing health and the pressure of other 

 work compelled him to resign his office, both in the college and hos- 

 pital. In recognition of his lengthened and distinguished services 

 in these institutions, he was appointed Emeritus Professor of Surgery 

 in the college, and Consulting Surgeon to the hospital. 



Onerous and important as were his duties in University College 

 and Hospital, these institutions were by no means the only scenes of 

 Mr. Marshall's professional activity. For four years he was the 

 Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution. He was 

 early in life appointed Lecturer on Anatomy as applied to Art, first 

 at Marlborough House, and then at the Government School of Art at 

 South Kensington ; and on the death of Mr. Partridge he was ap- 

 pointed to the honourable post of Professor of Anatomy at the Royal 

 Academy. In 1873 he was elected a member of the Council of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, and in 1883 he became the President of 

 that college. He was elected President of the Royal Medical and 

 Chirurgical Society in 1883, and in 1887 became President of the 

 General Medical Council an office that he held at the time of his 



