“ Frederick William Gamble was born in Manchester on July 13, 1869, son of the late Mr. William Gamble, and the late Mrs. Gamble, of Brantfall, Arnside, Westmorland. He was sent to Manchester Grammar School, and passed on to Manchester University, where he graduated B.Sc. with first-class honours in 1891, and obtained the Bishop Berkeley Fellowship in 1892. He also studied at Leipzig University. Returning to Manchester, he became lecturer and demonstrator in zoology, and afterwards served as assistant director of the University Zoological Laboratories. ”