IN MEMORIAM: ALFRED MILNES MARSHALL. 47 
Theory. In 1892, he lectured before the Association on ‘ Animal 
Pedigrees.’ 
Contributions so extensive to the literature of his subject could 
only have been brought into less than twenty years by unflinching 
industry, especially when we consider how he loaded himself with 
College and University business. 
Of his College work I have very little direct knowledge. I hear 
on all sides that he was eminently popular with his men, not because 
of the slightest tendency to laxity, but because he was straight-for- 
ward, very much in earnest, and yet conciliatory. His fondness for 
athletic exercises counted for a good deal in securing the good-will 
of his students. He was, I believe, in substance, though not in 
manner, a strict master and teacher. No one could be happy with 
him for long who did not share his passion for work. 
Marshall was much liked outside the College as a popular lecturer, 
and I believe that his short courses were first-rate. His ‘ Animal 
Pedigrees,’ the only popular lecture of his which I remember 
listening to, seemed to me by no means worthy of him. 
He was an admirable man of business. Good sense, diligence, 
quickness, tact, cheerfulness, were all his. I cannot imagine a better 
Secretary or a better chairman, and I have seen much of him in both 
capacities. A fearless, open-eyed man, he made his presence felt 
wherever he was, but in the course of several years of frequent 
intercourse I call to mind no single remark of his which had any 
flavour of atrogance or ill-nature. 
The British Association meeting at Manchester in 1887 had 
Marshall for local secretary, and of the energy with which he worked 
that immense gathering, one token afterwards came under my eye. 
He copied or pasted into a large book every circular, printed scrap 
and minute of the multifarious business, adding notes for the benefit 
of futtlre secretaries as to the greater Or less success of every 
arrangement. 
mong his pupils are to be reckoned several of the most active 
Mr. E. J. Bles, director of the Marine Biological Laboratory at 
Plymouth, and Prof. J. G. Adami. Some of these, though associated 
with Marshall in research, and to some extent at least under his 
Hurst, for many years Marshall’s right-hand man, and joint author 
with him of the ‘Practical Zoology,’ has lately appeared in public 
aS a vigorous critic of current Biological theories, among others of 
- Feb. 1894. 
