CHAPTER VIII 



Death of Owens Announcement of will Proceedings of 

 trustees Theological question Professors appointed 

 First meeting with Dr. Greenwood Manchester Free 

 Library My own appointment to Chair of Natural 

 History Botany Geology Opening of college My 

 early teaching Progress of college Evening classes 

 Decrease in number of students Condition of boys' 

 education in Manchester Resignation of Principal 

 Scott Appointment of Professor Greenwood to Prin- 

 cipalship Laboratory teaching needed My Chair 

 too big for good teaching to be possible Professor 

 Dawkins' appointment Social life of professors 

 Difficulties of popularity. 



ON August i, 1846, the Manchester Guardian made 

 the following obituary announcement : " On the 2Qth 

 " ult., aged 5 5 years, John Owens, Esq. of Nelson 

 " Street." This event proved, little as I was 

 then aware of it, to be one affecting in a most 

 important manner my future life. Glimpses of the 

 possibility that such might be the case dawned upon 

 me a few days later, when a leading article in the 

 same newspaper announced that the deceased gentle- 

 man had left a very large amount* of property to be 



* "The account was not finally closed until May 1857; 



