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



brought him into intimate and honourable connection with 

 several of the literary and scientific societies and institutions 

 of Manchester. He was appointed Lecturer on Botany at the 

 Pine-street, now the Royal Manchester School of Medicine 

 and Surgery, in September, 1833, as successor to Mr. William 

 Thompson ; and he delivered his first course of lectures there 

 (always a summer one) in the summer of 1834. His course, 

 which usually comprised from forty-five to fifty lectures, was 

 regularly delivered by him yearly, till the summer of this 

 year, when his health had become so seriously impaired, that 

 he was unable to give a single lecture of the course for which 

 he had been as usual announced. For the last few years of 

 the eighteen, — during which period he was quite remarkable 

 for the punctuality and regularity with which he fulfilled 

 this engagement, — Dr. Hardy was associated with him in the 

 course, his de])artment being the descriptive ; while Mr. Just 

 developed the structural and more purely physiological branch 

 of the science. Here his indefatigable exertions and habit of 

 early rising, were taxed for contributions that might aid his 

 botanical demonstrations ; he would rise with the sun, traverse 

 mile§ to collect the specimens he required for his lecture of 

 that day, and return home in time to receive a private class 

 of pupils at his own residence at the still early hour of seven 

 in the morning. In his class he was never content that the 

 students should accept his dictum on any matter capable of 

 proof, and he therefore made it a rule invariably to demon- 

 strate what he advanced. To the students he was ever 

 accessible, and not merely willing, but ready and desirous, 

 to give further explanations as to any points that might not 

 have been fully understood during the lecture. Those who 

 have been connected with Mr. Just in this institution, both 

 as students and colleagues, speak of his lectures and teaching 

 with gratitude and pleasure, and of his performance of his 

 duties as a professor as most exemplary, and ever dis- 

 tinguished b^ zeal for the interests of the school, an earnest 



