Francis Hugh Adam Marshall, CBE, FRS (11 July 1878, High Wycombe

High Wycombe

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 – 5 February 1949, Cambridge

Cambridge

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) was a British physiologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1920. He was an early researcher into the science of biological reproduction

Biological reproduction

Reproduction is the biological process by which new "offspring" individual organisms are produced from their "parents". Reproduction is a fundamental feature of all known life; each individual organism exists as the result of reproduction...

. His 1910 text The physiology of reproduction was influential. Marshall was awarded the Croonian Lecture

Croonian Lecture

The Croonian Lectures are prestigious lectureships given at the invitation of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians.Among the papers of William Croone at his death in 1684, was a plan to endow one lectureship at both the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians...

 in 1936 and, in 1940, the Royal Medal

Royal Medal

The Royal Medal, also known as The Queen's Medal, is a silver-gilt medal awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge" and one for "distinguished contributions in the applied sciences" made within the Commonwealth of...

 by the Royal Society. Marshall's presence at the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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 is cited as one of the reasons that the Institute of Animal Genetics was established there in the 1910s. The University of Edinburgh gave him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1939. He died of appendicitis

Appendicitis

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 in 1949.

Selected works

• The physiology of reproduction, with William Cramer and James Lochhead, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910; 2nd ed., with William Cramer, James Lochhead and Cresswell Shearer
  Cresswell Shearer
  Cresswell Shearer FRS was a british zoologist who worked on echinoids...
  
  , 1922; 3rd ed., with Alan S. Parkes, 1952; 4th ed., with Alan S. Parkes and George Eric Lamming, titled Marshall's Physiology of reproduction, 4 vols., Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1984.
• An introduction to sexual physiology for biologial, medical and agricultural students, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1925.

Furhter reading

• List of materials on the Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh University Archives.
• Honorary Graduates of The University of Edinburgh.