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THE GROWTH OF AN UNIVERSITY. 



the Town Planning Review, a monthly magazine. The Professor 

 of Architecture was appointed in 1904, but only this summer was 

 his Department suitably housed. 



The Museum of Archseolog-y awaits suitable housing. At 

 present it is in two houses in the terrace near the main University 

 Buildings, but its contents merit a finer place, for it contains the 

 one Hittite vase m Europe, placed there by Prof. Garstong, 

 Professor of Archaeology ; many things from Crete and Mycenae, 

 procured by Prof. Bosanquet, one of the Cretan explorers ; 

 treasures from Egypt brought by Prof. Newberry, or lent by 

 local owners ; and, the most interesting of all, because breaking 

 entirely new ground, figures and vases, implements and orna- 

 ments, from the forest region of Honduras, remarkable in that no 

 metal of any kind is found among them, even tools and weapons 

 being of obsidian. These are lent to the Museum by Dr. Gamm, 

 who, coming over to study at the Tropical School of Medicine, 

 found a hearty welcome also from the professors of anthropology 

 and archaeology. Dr. Frazer, the distinguished author of " The 

 Golden Bough " and " Psyche's Task," holds one of the Chairs, 

 " founded in honour of the scholarship of the present holder," as 

 the calendar expresses it. 



All this is very remarkable ; one understands easily the develop- 

 ment of the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Tropical School 

 of Medicine from Dr. Herdman's Zoological Department; indeed 

 the latter is a sort of tardy compensation for the slave trade that 

 for generations formed Liverpool's sole connection with the West 

 Coast of Africa ; one understands, too, how there should be four 

 well-equipped Chemical Laboratories, for S.W. Lancashire is a 

 great Chemical centre, and Manchester has long been renowned 

 through the work of Roscoe and Schorlemmer. One Laboratory 

 (that under Dr. Moore for bio-chemistry) is solely for research 

 work, and one (under Dr. Donnan — physical chemistry) mainly 

 for research work. Dr. Donnan tells me that it is the only labora- 

 tory of its kind in England and one of the very few in Europe, 

 and both he and Dr. Moore ask why they have no students from 

 South Africa, as they have from all the other main Colonies. But 

 the success of the Archaeological Department is only attributable 

 to the attainments and personality of the present professors, one 

 of whom. Prof. John L. Myres, Oxford has created a Chair for, 

 so as to get him back to her ; a compliment well merited. 



There are many other lines of progress, many men equally 

 worth mentioning, but the main points I am trying to emphasise 

 are the same in every department; if a good man is found, he is 

 glad of the opportunity offered ; first a lectureship, then a Chair, 

 then a Museum or a Laboratory or a fine building ; the men I 

 have named are widely known ; the departments I have detailed 

 are well-known, and in a few words the growth can be sum- 

 marised. The seven original Chairs have increased to 49 ; the 

 nine original professors have increased to 43, with 192 assistant 

 lecturers, professors and demonstrators, not including in that 

 number readers in Icelandic, Chinese, Celtic, and Ethnography. 

 The small rooms in which the first absolutely necessary specimens 

 were housed have been succeeded by 14 museums, one of which 



