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death. Daring the latter years of bis life Mr. Marshall took an 

 active interest in the establishment of a teaching university for 

 London, and was chairman of the association established for the 

 promotion of that object. Mr. Marshall was strongly in favour of 

 the establishment of a new teaching university for the metropolis, 

 and of leaving the present University of London to discharge its 

 duties as an Imperial examining body untrammelled by teaching 

 functions. 



Mr. Marshall was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1857. He 

 twice served on its Council, viz., from 1868 to 1870, and again in 

 1880-81. He has contributed two papers to the ' Philosophical 

 Transactions.' The first of these (1849), published in 1850 (' Phil. 

 Trans.,' pp. 135 170), was " On the Development of the Great An- 

 terior Veins in Man and Mammalia, including an account of certain 

 Remnants of Foetal Structure found in the Adult ; a Comparative 

 View of these Great Veins in different Mammalia, and an Analysis of 

 their occasional Peculiarities in the Human Subject." This paper, 

 which was the result of a laborious original research, formed a very 

 important addition to embryology and to our knowledge of the 

 morphology of the vascular system. The second paper, published in 

 1861 (' Phil. Trans.,' pp. 505538), was " On the Brain of a Bush- 

 woman, and on the Brains of two Idiots of European Descent." This 

 paper was a most valuable contribution to our knowledge of the 

 anatomy of the idiot brain. In it Marshall mapped out the con- 

 volutions, and in some measure may be said to have been a pioneer in 

 that field of research which has yielded such important results to 

 Ferrier, Horsley, and others of recent years. 



The bent of Professor Marshall's mind was essentially and strongly 

 scientific. Throughout his life he devoted much time, and paid close 

 attention, to the study and the teaching of anatomy and physiology. 

 As has already been stated, he was for a lengthened series of years 

 Lecturer on Art Anatomy at the Government Schools of Art at 

 Marlborough House and South Kensington ; up to the time of his 

 death he held the Professorship of Anatomy at the Royal Academy of 

 Arts ; and for four years he had been Fullerian Professor of Physio- 

 logy at the Royal Institution. As a lecturer he was clear and 

 precise ; his hearers felt that he possessed a thorough mastery over 

 the subject on which he discoursed, and the enthusiasm with which 

 he treated his favourite studies could never fail to elicit a warm and 

 sympathetic response in his class. 



Marshall's published works were chiefly on anatomy and physio- 

 logy- " The Human Body : its Structure and Functions " appeared 

 in 1860, "Outlines of Physiology" in 1867, and "Anatomy for 

 Artists " in 1878. On surgery he wrote but little. His most im- 

 portant contributions to it were a paper in the ' Medico-Chirurgical 



