48 IN MEMORIAM: ALFRED MILNES MARSHALL. 
that Recapitulation theory which Marshall specially advocated. 
I believe that there is nevertheless none of Marshall’s friends who 
has a higher opinion of his scientific and professorial work. 
The last good talk I had with Marshall was during a moorland 
walk last summer. He was in capital spirits, and full of the things 
he meant to do. Most of those things will never be done, or else 
will be done far worse than Marshall would have allowed. He was 
much in earnest to get certain things accomplished for Biology, for 
the University, and for some of his own men. They occupied his 
mind completely, and I noticed that he could not be drawn off 
to discuss any of the natural history problems which such a walk 
suggests. As long as we were going up-hill the slight exertion 
seemed to keep his thoughts bent to work, but when we had done 
our Siz, as he liked to call this low, flat hill, he relaxed and talked _ 
about pictures. All the evening he was full of a new class-book, 
which would have been a great accession to the resources of schools 
of Zoology, but which remains unattempted. 
Marshall’s library was very characteristic. An excellent collection 
of zoological books, in admirable order, the reprints arranged with 
scrupulous care, and the manuscript titles as neat as letter-press— 
all this was just like the owner. I remember no literature, and there 
cannot have been much. Books of travel he greatly liked, and he 
accumulated large stores of photographs, especially of sculpture and 
architecture. 
During term-time Marshall had very few amusements. He filled 
his days with work, and a glance at the water-colours which hung on 
his walls did instead of the novel or the theatre. The long vacation 
gave him the mountaineering in which he took such delight, and into 
this he threw himself with his full energy. In his last alpine season 
he ascended the Aiguille Dru and crossed the Matterhorn from the 
Italian to the Swiss side. 
The twenty or thirty years of further research which might have 
been accomplished had Marshall’s splendid industry and_ ever- 
growing knowledge been continued to the full term would have 
placed him very high among Zoologists. His career, though cut 
short possibly before he had quite attained his full power, was 
did, and he did it without: sparing himself. He never claimed 
any credit that he had not fairly earned, and he never printed 
a line that he had not made as minutely accurate as he could. 
May it be long before his bright example is forgotten! 
L. C. MIALL. 
Naturalist 
