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forwarded to the trustees, asking them to appoint a 

 Deputy Principal, who should be required to be at the 

 college through certain hours of the day, where he 

 could be easily reached by such of the professors as 

 required to consult with him. The meaning of this 

 procedure on the part of the staff was doubtless 

 understood by the Principal, who on May 28, 1857, 

 resigned his office. Dr. Scott's resignation robbed 

 Manchester of a man of rare culture, and his death 

 a few months later is said to have taken from the 

 world more Dantesque learning than was left behind. 

 On July 24 of the same year, Professor Green- 

 wood was appointed in his place. During the first 

 year of the new Principal's control, the decline in 

 the number of ordinary students was arrested ; and in 

 the three succeeding years they rose respectively to 

 forty, fifty-seven, and sixty-nine. But many other 

 additions were needful before the college attained to 

 its ultimate career of real success. Great educational 

 changes were meanwhile taking place outside Owens 

 College. On the Continent the oral teaching of 

 science in lecture rooms was gradually becoming 

 supplemented by the practical training only attain- 

 able in the laboratory. Liebig had long previously 

 employed such a method of teaching chemistry at 

 Giessen, and had attracted students from many 

 distant localities. Bunsen followed this example at 

 Heidelberg, and with similar results. When Dr. 

 Frankland was appointed to the Chemical Chair at 

 Owens, he was provided with a laboratory, but a 



