290 Hminent Living Geologists—Dr. J. EH. Marr. 
masses he should, alas! receive no more pamphlets from Prague on 
the ‘‘ Defense du Colonies’’, which were so entertaining. 
In 1880 Marr spent a considerable time in visiting the historical 
localities of the Lower Paleozoic rocks of Scandinavia. Both these 
expeditions were aided by grants from the Worts Travelling Fund of 
the University. The results of his investigations were presented in 
papers read before the Geological Society and printed in the Quarterly 
Journal and the Gronoercan Magazine (1881, p. 245; 1882, p. 282; 
1883, p. 263, etc.). | 
During this period Marr had the advantage of much useful training 
in lecture-work while acting as Lecturer to the University Extension, 
Scheme, and for one winter of that period he served the office of 
Deputy to Professor A. H. Green at Leeds. 
J. E. Marr was elected a Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, 
in 1881, and appointed University Lecturer in Geology in 1886, 
having been informally engaged in teaching in the University some 
years previously. Shortly after his appointment he was also made 
College Lecturer in Geology. 
Since 1886 Dr. Marr has devoted himself mainly to teaching in 
Cambridge and to geological research. His studies in the field were 
largely in the complex Paleozoic rocks of the Lake District, but 
embraced other home areas, as well as on the Continent. He has 
done much work as an Examiner at Cambridge and other Universities 
and has served on many Boards and Syndicatesin the University, and 
has been elected to the Councils of the Royal Society, the British 
Association, and the Geological Society. He entered the Council of 
the last-named Society in 1885, and has since served almost 
continuously, save for five years in a period of thirty-one, filling 
the office of Secretary for ten years, Vice-President during sixteen 
years, and as President for two years. 
In carrying out field-work he has been fortunate in his colleagues, 
including, among others, Thomas Roberts, Alfred Harker, Henry 
Alleyne Nicholson, and E. J. Garwood. One of the heavy blows in 
his life was the loss of Nicholson at a time when his friends all hoped 
that he had many years of good work before him. 
Dr. Marr writes: ‘“‘The geologist goes into the field not only as 
a researcher, but ever as a student, and in these later years I grate- 
fully recall the instruction I have received from Professor Charles 
Lapworth, at whose feet so many geologists have sat.” He also 
acknowledges to have received much assistance from many of his 
pupils while carrying on field observations. He was being helped 
in the Lake District by his son (now Captain Alleyne Marr) when 
the War broke out; Captain Marr is now serving at the Front. 
Owing to the almost continuous service of Dr. Marr as a Member of 
Council, it was difficult to find an occasion when that body could 
vote one of its medals to a Fellow who, by his long-continued 
services, had done so much to aid the science of geology and the 
interests of the Society. It came in 1900, when he was awarded 
the Lyell Medal, and the President referred to his numerous 
contributions to the Society’s Journal and to the Grotoeican 
Magazine (from 1876 onwards) on the Lake District and its borders, 
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