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In a commercial seaport one would hardly have expected 

 Greek, Philosophy and Literature to be the first, and Naval Archi- 

 tecture to be the last Chair to be founded ; but the Chair of Naval 

 Architecture was founded only last year, and up to the present the 

 Arts side has been well supported, unlike what has happened in 

 some other modern universities. 



In 1884, University College, together with Owens College, 

 Manchester, and the Yorkshire College, Leeds, were incorporated 

 as the Victoria University, and the excellent Medical School 

 already in existence at Liverpool was amalgamated with 

 University College, bringing on to the Council a body of able and 

 practical men, notably the late Sir Michael Banks, first Dean of 

 the Medical Faculty, whose caustic wit and common sense is still 

 remembered on the Council, while his happy phrase " a quad- 

 rangular mind " is still used to describe the man who, brought 

 up at one of the older Universities, can only appreciate modern 

 ones in so far as they copy Oxford or Cambridge, instead of 

 developing on their own very different lines. 



Among the first professors were Dr. Rendall, now at Charter- 

 house ; Professor Bradley, now filling the Chair of Poetry at 

 Oxford ; Professor MacCunn, who retired a few months ago, 

 author of " Ethics of Citizenship " and other philosophical works ; 

 Sir Oliver Lodge, now head of Birmingham University ; and Dr. 

 Herdman, who is still at Liverpool and known to many of us as 

 General Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. 



Sir Oliver Lodge combined the varying attributes of an 

 inspiring teacher, a fine scientist and an admirable public speaker. 

 He was at Liverpool from 1881 to 1900, but the present fine 

 Physics Laboratory was built only in 1904; and Sir Oliver worked 

 out many problems and pursued his elaborate researches with very 

 elementary equipment ; nevertheless, before Marconi was heard of 

 except by his teacher, Sir Oliver Lodge had a wireless Installation 

 of telegraphy between College and his private residence, and 

 during the later years that he was there he was wont to dispel 

 the fog that besets the valley of the Mersey by means of electric 

 discharges, so that the University area was always clear of fog, 

 proving the practicability of one of his many theories. His 

 fascinating book " Pioneers of Science " first appeared in lecture 

 form in connection with University Extension Lectures. 



Dr. Herdman's achievements are even more remarkable. Start- 

 ing with two or three rooms, a very small museum and an out- 

 house or so, he has built up a fine School of Blologv, a Marine 

 Biological Laboratory second to none, and a permanent Fisheries 

 Exhibition. The excellent Botanical Laboratory, where his former 

 demonstrator, Mr. Harvey Gibson, Is professor, may be regarded 

 as an offshoot of Dr. Herdman's work, and the School of Tropical 

 Medicine is so likewise. In 1897 most of the old buildings had 

 been handed over to Dr. Herdman, as from 1890 onwards there 

 was constant building of new departments, and the main buildings 

 of University College were in their present poslton in 1893. In 

 that year he and Mr. Boyce (who had come from London to join 

 him) were elaborating experiments on oysters to ascertain how far 



