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whom he leaves one son and three daughters. He died at Grantown 

 on October 24, 1892, in the 79fch year of his age. 



With Admiral Smyth and Professor Baden- Powell, he published a 

 translation of Arago's ' Popular Astronomy,' two yols., 1855 1858, 

 and a volume of ' Biographical Notices of Scientific Men.' He 

 greatly contributed to the exposure of the Pascal forgeries (see 

 ' Comptes Reiidus,' 1867), by calling attention to the data extracted 

 from Newton's published works and used by him, which were quoted 

 in the forged letters, but which were not in existence in Pascal's life- 

 time ; he also communicated seventeen papers to the Royal Astrono- 

 mical Society. 



E. ,T. S. 



ARTHUR MILNES MARSHALL was born at Birmingham on June 8, 

 1852, and died on December 31, 1893. He was the second son of 

 William P. Marshall, for many years Secretary of the Institution of 

 Civil Engineers. He entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1871, 

 and read for the Natural Sciences Tripos. In those days the Biolo- 

 gical Sciences did not hold the prominent position in the University 

 curriculum which they do at the present time, but the influence 

 which has since brought about such a marked development of these 

 studies at Cambridge had already begun its work, and Marshall was 

 one of the first to take advantage of the new state of things. 



As an undergraduate his studies met with every success : lie was 

 elected Scholar of his College in June, 1873, and in 1874 he was placed 

 at the head of the first class of the Natural Sciences Tripos. After 

 taking his degree in January, 1875, he went to Naples, having been 

 appointed by the University to their table at the recently-established 

 Zoological Station. He returned in the summer of 1875, and in the 

 October Term joined with Balfour in giving a course of lectures, 

 accompanied by practical work, on Zoology. He was elected Fellow 

 of St. John's College in 1877. 



In the same year he gave up temporarily as it fortunately turned 

 out the prosecution of his purely scientific studies, and went to St. 

 Bartholomew's Hospital to work at medicine. His medical studies 

 continued until 1879, when he was appointed to the newly-established 

 chair of Zoology in the Owens College. 



He was now able to devote himself wholly to the pursuit of 

 science. He took up again the embryological work which he had 

 begun at Naples, and which had necessarily somewhat languished 

 during his medical studies, and published a series of memoirs in the 

 ' Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science ' on the morphology of 

 the vertebrate head. These were entitled : " The Development of the 

 Cranial Nerves in the Chick," 1878 ; " The Morphology of the 

 Vertebrate Olfactory Organ," 1879 ; " Observations on the Cranial 



