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



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desire to promote the advantage of the student, and the 

 most cordial good feeling, friendship, and confidence towards 

 his colleagues. At the annual distribution of prizes to the 

 students, in November last, the founder of the school bore 

 the fullest testimony to the merits, rare mental acquirements, 

 and high moral character, of his deceased associate. To his 

 connection with this institution Mr. Just looked back with 

 much pride and pleasure; and as life ebbed away, he gave 

 a characteristic recognition of hig unfailing interest in that 

 school where for eighteen years he had been so able, inde- 

 fatigable, and successful a teacher, by bequeathing to it his 

 valuable collection of dried botanical specimens — one of the 

 best and most extensive in the country. 



It was on the 22nd January, 1839, that Mr. Just was elected 

 a corresponding Member of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society of Manchester, and he soon began to demonstrate 

 that he was worthy of this position. In April of the same 

 year he read his first paper to this Society ; whose printed 

 Transactions now include seven of his Essays, — three on 

 Agricultural Science ; two on Piiilology ; and two on Roman 

 Roads; besides two others on philological and archaeological 

 questions, not printed. These will be noticed under their 

 respective subjects ; but the fact of nine papers, bearing on 

 four distinct branches of knowledge, and all contributed in 

 thirteen sessions of this Society, will, to some extent, justify 

 its desire to have a brief memorial of their deceased member, 

 permanently recorded in their published Transactions. 



In October, 1848, the Lecture Committee of the Royal 

 Manchester Institution recommended that an Honorary Pro- 

 fessorship of Botany should be instituted therein, and that 

 it should be offered to Mr. Just; and the Council having 

 unanimously confirmed the appointment, it was tendered to 

 Mr. Just, who, in acknowledging the honour and accepting 

 the office, expressed his earnest desire to discharge whatever 

 duties might consequently devolve upon him, to the full 



