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sewage made them unfit for human consumption, and from that 

 combination the School of Tropical Medicine developed, of which 

 the results are sufficiently striking, as well as valuable, to be 

 known even to the man in the street. Of that School Sir' Rupert 

 Boyce is Dean and Major Ronald Ross* leading professor. 



When the Imperial Government required expert knowledge on 

 the Ceylon Pearl Fisheries, it was to Dr. Herdman and Liverpool 

 that they applied. Dr. Herdman and a number of assistants went 

 out to Ceylon, discovered the cause of the trouble, found a remedy, 

 rnade certain recommendations, which have been successfully car- 

 ried out, and returned with large and valuable collections from the 

 Indian Ocean, to add to their admirable and varied Museum. 



About 1889 Dr. Herdman obtained permission from the owner 

 of Puffin Island, off Anglesea, to erect a few sheds and form a 

 little laboratory for Marine Biological research ; the Dock Board 

 graciously lent a derelict tug to the enthusiasts (Dr. Gilchrist 

 doubtless remembers the unseaworthy propensities of the Hycena), 

 and from that has grown the splendid Marine Biological Labora- 

 tory at Port Erin, one of the best equipped in the world. Doubt- 

 less Dr. Herdman at times envied his brother biologist, the Prince 

 of Monaco, an equally distinguished scientist, whose lines were 

 laid in softer places ; but millionaire princes, who are also scien- 

 tists, cannot be expected to materialise often until the day fore- 

 shadowed by Plato, when kings shall be philosophers and philo- 

 sophers shall be kings. Meantime, it is the man who makes the 

 opportunity, and, as Dr. Herdman told someone when here, " the 

 great thing is that Liverpool gives you a free hand and you can 

 develop on your own lines." Originally he had little equipment, 

 and, like all the other Chairs in the early days, his income was 

 ;£400 a year and half the fees ; the class that I was in consisted of 

 ten, other more advanced classes of fewer. Like Sir Oliver 

 Lodge's, so Dr. Herdman's career contradicts the theory that 

 money and equipment are the first needs of a University ; the 

 first, second and third are good men, !eachers and searchers with 

 a free hand. 



In the town from which the first passenger train and first rail- 

 way started one expects engineering to be of importance, and so 

 in 1885 a lecturer was appointed, Mr. Hele Shaw, who again 

 with the minimum of equipment made himself felt at once and 

 attracted students. In 1886 a Chair was established, and in 1887 

 the Engineering Laboratories built at a cost of ^^30,000. t 

 Professor Hele Shaw continued at Liverpool until he resigned to 

 come to Johannesburg in 1902. In 1884 Chairs of Latin and 

 History had been added to the foundation and College was 

 equally fortunate in these professors, though there is less that 

 can be easily recorded. Dr. Strong, first holder of the Latin 

 Chair, retired last year on the age limit ; he was an enthusiastic 

 member of the Classical Association and a keen archaeologist, 

 rousing his students to investigate and help to disclose the Roman 

 remains of Cheshire and the Welsh Marches. 



*Nobel Prizeman. 

 tBuilt by a private citizen. 



