46 IN MEMORIAM: ALFRED MILNES MARSHALL, 
Goéthe) which insists upon coming to close quarters with facts, he 
was exceptionally fit to attack difficult questions which demanded 
plenty of hard work and a candid mind. His practice, especially in 
the last and most scientifically valuable part of his life, was to see 
for himself what the facts were, then to draw the structures, and 
finally to prepare a technical and word-sparing description. 
Speculative matter is uncommon in his published papers, and what 
there is he would not have considered as of lasting value. He 
became weaker (as all but the very greatest minds do) when he got 
away from his own observation and experience. Such mental bias, 
joined to a real love of hard work, brings speedy success, and 
Marshall shot up among his contemporaries with startling rapidity. 
High as his gifts were, they did not incline him to attempt the 
greatest work in Biology, such as that of Baer or Darwin. I imagine 
that Marshall would have recognised this cheerfully, and would 
have maintained that there is one method for men of genius and 
another for ordinary workers. That he would have insisted upon 
placing himself in the lower class I know for a fact. 
His scientific publications were numerous and valuable. We 
have among them several highly special memoirs, such as_ his 
Segmental Value of the Cranial Nerves, his four papers on the 
Pennatulide, and his Nervous System of Antedon. The first of 
these won him a place of distinction among English biologists before 
he was thirty years of age. The Vertebrate Embryology, published 
last year, includes much of his best work besides an inevitably large 
compilation of other people's results. ‘Compilation’ must not be 
work taken quite unusual pains to verify even those facts which he 
gave on another’s authority. 
He wrote also for elementary students. His little book on the 
Frog is a useful first manual, and the much more important Practical 
Zoology, prepared in association with Dr. C. H. Hurst, is an excellent 
course for elementary students, which is now widely known and 
valued. The two volumes of ‘Studies from the Biological Labora- 
tory of the Owens College,’ edited, and to a considerable extent 
written, by Marshall, testify to the excellent work carried on at his 
suggestion. Vol. III. of the Studies was to have been published at 
Easter, 1894. The papers are nearly all ready, and the plates 
printed off. Marshall was latterly one of the assistant-editors of the 
‘ Journal of Microscopical Science.’ 
At Leeds, in 1890, he presided over the Biological Section of 
the British Association, and delivered an address which was largely 
devoted to the exposition and enforcement of the Recapitulation 
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