Arthur Milnes Marshall

Born in Birmingham on 8 June 1852, he was the third son of William P. Marshall, secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

at London University, and the following year entered St John's College, Cambridge, to read for the Natural Science Tripos.

with a top first, and was appointed in the early part of 1875 by Cambridge University to their table at the new Stazione Zoologica, Naples.

In the summer of the same year he returned to Cambridge, and during the October term he joined Balfour in giving a course of lectures and laboratory work in zoology.

[1][2] In 1877 Marshall won an open science scholarship at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and in the same year he passed the M.B.

[1] Marshall's main recreation was mountain climbing, despite the death of his friend Francis Balfour on Mont Blanc.

With his later researches on the anatomy of Pennatulid corals, these papers form Marshall's significant contributions to zoology.

A pithy speaker, he put recapitulation theory in the form that animals "climb up their genealogical tree".