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alternate afternoon and evening meetings during this session 

 has been successful, the attendance at the afternoon meetings 

 having been distinctly in excess of that at the evening 

 meetings, and recommends the continuance of the arrange- 

 ment. 



The Council recommends the continuance of the system 

 of electing Associates of Sections by the usual annual 

 resolution. 



Arthur Milnes Marshall, the second son of Mr 

 William P. Marshall, C.E., was born in Birmingham, on the 

 8th June, 1852. He was a lover of nature from his earliest 

 years, and when, after a preliminary education at a 

 private school, he entered St. John's College, Cambridge, he 

 made the several branches of Natural Science his special 

 form of study. Before going to Cambridge he had already 

 graduated as Bachelor of Arts at the University of London 

 in 1870. He began his Cambridge Life in 1871, and in 

 1874 his name appeared as Senior in the Natural Science 

 Tripos list of that year, and in the following year he took 

 his B.A. degree. After a brief visit to the Zoological 

 Station at Naples, Marshall returned to Cambridge, and 

 assisted his friend, the late Professor Balfour, in the forma- 

 tion and management of new classes in Animal Morphology. 

 He now turned his attention to the completion of his 

 medical studies, and in 1877, the same year that he was 

 elected Fellow of St. John's College, he entered St. Bar- 

 tholomew's Hospital, London, where he spent the greater 

 part of three years. In 1879 he was appinted Beyer 

 Professor of Zoology in the Owens College, Manchester. 

 From this moment Marshall gave up all idea of a medical 

 career, which was evidently less attractive to him than a life 

 devoted entirely to scientific research, and to the instigation 

 of similar efforts in others. Whilst at Cambridge he had 

 not relinquished his connection with the University of 



