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room and took his place at the council table exactly 

 opposite to where I was sitting. A friend whispered 

 in my ear that the young stranger was Mr. Green- 

 wood, the newly elected Professor of Classics. I was 

 candidate for the Chair of Natural History, but had 

 not received my appointment, neither was I in any 

 degree sure of obtaining the coveted chair. I need 

 scarcely add I regarded my vis-a-vis with con- 

 siderable interest, not unmixed with envy of his 

 success. I was personally introduced to the young 

 man at the close of our meeting, which introduc- 

 tion proved to be the commencement of a friendship 

 of the closest type ; a friendship that has lasted 

 until a month ago, when my beloved colleague 

 and Principal passed from here into eternity. I 

 little anticipated so important a result when I first 

 saw him enter that council room. 



At the opening meeting of the said Free Library, 

 which, however, did not take place until September 

 1852, eighteen months after the opening of the 

 college, Sir James Stephen, Professor of Modern 

 History at Cambridge, said: "At Cambridge, as 

 " everywhere else, where educated men are brought 

 " together, Manchester is a name of deep and even of 

 1 1 awful significance ; for here is the metropolis of 

 " that Titanic industry, on the continued success of 

 " which England has deliberately pledged her station 

 " and her authority among the nations of the 

 "world." 



My own appointment to the Professorship of 



