Dr. F. H. A. Marshall, C.B.E., F.R.S

Abstract

BORN at High Wycombeton July 11, 1878, Francis Hugh Adam Marshall died suddenly after an operation in a Cambridge nursing home on February 5. He was the younger son of Thomas Marshall, and was educated it St. Mark's School, Windsor, and privately. After a short time at University College, London, ha went up to Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1896 and took the Natural Sciences Tripos. In-spired by tne work of Walter Heape in Cambridge on sex physiology, he then accepted an invitation to work in Edinburgh with Prof. Cossar Ewart, who at that time was conducting his well-known experiments on telegony in farm animals at Penicuik. Here he started his research career and worked in conjunction also with the distinguished group of research physiologists centred around Sir Edward Sharpey Shafer. During this time he published many valuable papers on the cestrous cycle in the sheep (1903), the ferret (1904) and the dog (1905) ; but perhaps one of the most important was that on Ovary as an Organ of Internal Secretion, for it led to large developments in this field later. The University of Edinburgh honoured him with a D.Sc. and later with an LL.D. degree, and he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.