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BY the death of Prof. Marcus Manuel Hartog in France, at the age of seventy-five years, biological science loses a remarkably accomplished and enthusiastic worker. After a school education in London, he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1874 was placed in the first class in the Natural Science Tripos. To many of his old friends it has seemed that if Hartog had had the chance of remaining in Cambridge a year or two after he took his degree to initiate and develop some line of research, he might have attained a position of the highest distinction among the group of Cambridge scientific men of that period; but having married a few months after graduation, he accepted the post of assistant to the Director of the Peradenya Gardens in Ceylon and never resided again in Cambridge. On his return from Ceylon in 1877 he was appointed demonstrator and lecturer in natural history in the Owens College, Manchester, a post which he held until he was appointed to the chair of natural history in Queen's College, Cork, in 1882.
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Prof. Marcus M. Hartog. Nature 113, 243–244 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113243a0
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