Francis Marshall (physiologist)

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Francis Hugh Adam Marshall

biological reproduction
.

Early life and education

Marshall was born in

University College, London, and then at the University of Cambridge, graduating from Christ's College in 1900. He did further postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh
, gaining his first doctorate (DSc).

Career and research

Marshall's first position was a research assistant to

oestrus cycle of ferrets (with Edward Schäfer) and dogs (with William A. Jolly). Marshall began to study the function of the ovary, publishing a classic paper with Jolly subtitled "The ovary as an organ of internal secretion" in 1905 that Alan S. Parkes described as "the first serious attempt to correlate the changes in the uterus during the reproductive cycle with the cyclic production of different internal secretions by the ovary."[3]

From 1903 to 1908, Marshall lectured at the University of Edinburgh in Natural History. His presence at the university is cited as one of the reasons that the Institute of Animal Genetics was established there in the 1910s.[citation needed]

In 1908, Marshall returned to the University of Cambridge, lecturing in the School of Agriculture, and becoming a Reader in 1919. He was a fellow of Christ's College from 1909 until his death.

His studies of reproduction were interrupted by the First World War, during which he did research for the Ministries of Food and Agriculture, for example on the optimal age to slaughter cattle. His subsequent research focused on the effect of external factors such as light and climate on reproduction. He also researched courtship and reproduction in birds.[3]

Awards and honours

In 1901 Marshall was elected a Fellow of the

Croonian Lecture in 1936 and, in 1940, the Royal Medal by the Royal Society.[4]

The University of Edinburgh gave him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LLD) in 1939.

Personal life

He never married and had no children. He retired in 1943 and died of appendicitis in Cambridge on 5 February 1949.

Selected publications

  • 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, 1922; 3rd edn, with Alan S. Parkes, 1952; 4th edn, with Alan S. Parkes and George Eric Lamming, titled Marshall's Physiology of reproduction, 4 vols, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1984.
  • The Physiology of Farm Animals (1920)
  • An Introduction to Sexual Physiology for Biological, Medical and Agricultural Students, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1925.

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1098/rsbm.1950.0015
    .
  2. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
  3. ^
    ISBN 940111286X
    ).
  4. ISBN 9780719032820
    .

Further reading
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