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on Wales, and on the pre-Devonian rocks of Bohemia. He also 
specially referred to those on the Stockdale Shales (in conjunction 
with the late Professor Nicholson), on the Shap Granite and its 
associated rocks with Dr. Alfred Harker, F.R.S. (the present 
President), and on limestone knolls. Mr. Whitaker also cited other 
works by Dr. Marr on The Cambrian and Silurian Rocks, The 
Principles of Stratigraphical Geology, and The Scientific Study of 
Scenery. 
Fourteen years later (in 1914) the Council awarded the blue ribbon 
of the Geological Society, the Wollaston Medal, to Dr. Marr, and the 
President, Dr. Aubrey Strahan, referred to his brilliant University 
career and the continuity of his labours since 1880 in the task of 
assisting the Woodwardian Professor to create in Cambridge the 
foremost school of geology in Britain. He described Dr. Marv’s 
investigations in the field on the Lower Paleozoic rocks and on the 
zoning of the strata between the Coniston Limestone and the Coniston 
Grits in the Lake District, on the continuation of those researches 
into North Wales, and the comparison of the sequence, as there 
developed, with that of the Lake District. He referred to Marr’s 
visit to Bohemia and his investigation of the boundary between the 
Cambrian and Silurian, and his careful comparisons of the Bohemian 
and British developments, incidentally to show that there existed 
serious objections to the acceptance of Barrande’s colonies, both on 
paleontological and stratigraphical grounds. 
No sketch of his life-labours in Cambridge would be complete if we 
failed to pay a tribute to the able way in which Dr. Marr’s teaching 
work has been aided and encouraged by his wife. One of his old 
students writes: ‘‘Marr’s profound knowledge of his subject, his 
youthful enthusiasm, and his sympathy with the undergraduate have 
all contributed to make him the most successful of teachers. It has 
always been his endeavour to get into closer touch with his pupils 
than could well be done in the lecture-room, and in this he has been 
aided in no small measure by his wife. Every Sunday afternoon and 
evening during term-time students were welcomed at their house, 
a privilege and a kindness that meant much to the undergraduate, 
who sees all too little of home-life while at the University. Neither 
Marr nor Mrs. Marr lose sight of a student when he leaves Cambridge, 
for by that time he has passed from the status of pupil to that of 
personal friend, and his advance in the geological world is aided and 
watched with pleasure.” 
The following are the principal dates relating to Dr. Marr’s career: B.A. 
1879; M.A.1882; Se.D.1904; F.G.S.1879; F.R.S. 1891; Sec. G.S. 1888-98 ; 
V.P.G.S. 1901-3, 1906-8, 1911-13; Pres. G.S. 1904-6; Lyell Medallist 1900 ; 
Wollaston Medallist 1914. 
Dr. Marr received Hon. Ph.D. in the Bohemian University of Prague in 
1908; President Section C (Geology) British Association 1896; delivered 
lecture to Operative Classes at Cambridge Meeting of British Association 1904 ; 
delivered Tyndall Lecture at Royal Institution 1906. 
He is an Honorary Member of the Geologists Association and of other British 
Scientific Societies ; also of the Geological Society of Belgium, and the Natural 
History Society of New Brunswick. 
Dr. Marr is the author of the following publications :— 
