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Abstract

FIFTEEN years have passed since the Marshall Hall Fund was instituted with the twofold purpose of commemorating the late Dr. Marshall Hall, and for the encouragement of research in that branch of natural science which he did so much to develop. The Trust provides “that a prize shall be given every fifth year for the best original work done and recorded in the English language during the previous quinquennium, in physiological or pathological researches relating to the nervous system, and that the prize shall consist of the simple interest derived during the preceding five years from the amount of the capital fund.” The first award was made to Dr. Hughlings Jackson, the second to Dr. Ferrier, and this year the Council of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, in whose hands the Fund was placed, have awarded the prize to Dr. Walter Hol-brook Gaskell, F.R.S., Lecturer in Advanced Physiology in the University of Cambridge. The Council have, invited Dr. Gaskell to give some account of his work before the Society, and a special meeting will be convened for this purpose.