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London, but may be said to have completed his academical 

 course in that University by taking the B.Sc. degree in 1873, 

 and D.Sc. in 1877. Although having no intention of 

 entering upon a medical profession, he nevertheless com- 

 pleted his medical studies by taking the degree of M.B. at 

 Cambridge in 1880, and that of M.D. in 1882. In 1885 he 

 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and served upon 

 the Council for the year 1891. From the time that Marshall 

 was appointed to the Professorship of Zoology in the Owens 

 College he devoted himself unceasingly to what he distinctly 

 understood to be his two-fold and paramount duties, the 

 advancement of the College of which he now formed part, 

 and the pursuit of his investigations in the branch of science 

 he loved. No words can adequately express the magnitude 

 of the loss to either his College, or to Science that his death 

 has occasioned. In the midst of health and hard work Arthur 

 Milnes Marshall was cruelly cut off by a fatal accident upon 

 the rocks around Scawfell, upon the 31st December, 1893. 

 The exact details of the accident are not known. It is a 

 sufficiently mournful fact to have to record that at the com- 

 paratively early age of 41, in the prime of his intellectual 

 and phyiscal vigour and work, one of the brightest, most 

 friendly, and sincerest of men, has suddenly passed away 

 from his companions, and the scene of his successful labours. 

 As a teacher he was probably unsurpassed. Possessed of 

 an extremely well-balanced mind, he could see clearly the 

 arguments for and against a question. He was as keenly 

 alive to the errors of a Radical as he was to the mistakes of 

 a Tory. So in biological questions he was never bigoted 

 and was ever cautious. In his most recent and perhaps 

 greatest work, " Vertebrate Embryology," published in the 

 year of his death, nothing is more striking than the extreme 

 moderation and caution of the views expressed upon 

 current biological theories, and the complete absence of 

 any novel idea, however fascinating it might be, unless 



