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MEMOIR OF THE LATE MR. JOHN JUST, OF BURY. 



On the 27th September, 1850, Mr. Just delivered before 

 the Bury Agricultural Society, "A Lecture on the value and 

 properties of Lime, for Agricultural Purposes," with analyses 

 of several specimens ; and so highly did that Society estimate 

 the great amount of valuable information contained in this 

 lecture, that it was printed in a separate form, as a pamphlet, 

 (pp.16.) 



Connected with this investigation, Mr. Just analysed more 

 than thirty varieties of lime, obtained in the neighbourhood 

 of Clitheroe, for a gentleman resident there ; and here, as in 

 many other ways, he made his scientific knowledge directly 

 applicable to the promotion of practical improvements in the 

 industrial operations of ordinary life. 



Every busy man who looks forward at all, delights to think 

 of a time when he may have leisure to pursue his favourite 

 studies ; and Mr. Just often expressed a hope to his intimate 

 friends, that at some future time, after his child's education 

 had been completed, he should be able to give up his more 

 arduous duties, and retire to some quiet spot in his native 

 county, where he could complete the great philological work 

 on which he was engaged, and enjoy botany and agriculture 

 as healthful recreations. 



As his knowledge of chemistry, geology, botany, and even 

 mathematics, were all brought to bear on his researches into 

 agricultural science, — so Mr. Just made his investigations in 

 philology, and his archaeological pursuits, give to each other 

 mutual aid and light. His knowledge of the Latin and 

 Greek languages and literatures, was the ready handmaiden 

 in numismatical inquiries, or in the investigation of the traces 

 which the Romans have left behind them of their rule, in 

 the North of England ; — while his extensive familiarity with 

 the Teutonic tribe of languages, enabled him to comprehend 

 much of the life and manners of those whom he was wont to 

 call " our Saxon fore-elders." His long study of the ancient 

 tongues of Scandinavia, and his thorough acquaintance with 



