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long time elapsed before any other department of 

 the college was similarly favoured, yet natural 

 philosophy, engineering, and natural history in all 

 its departments required similar provision. Mean- 

 while the Manchester community began to discover 

 the advantages of a higher intellectual and scientific 

 training as preparation for even a commercial and 

 manufacturing life ; hence the authorities said an 

 extension of their teaching machinery was inevit- 

 able. I was one of the first of the teaching staft 

 to be affected by these changes. At the out- 

 set I had to teach comparative anatomy, botany, 

 geology, and palaeontology. I saw that to make 

 the anatomy of lower animals intelligible, a know- 

 ledge of at least the broader features of human 

 anatomy was desirable ; that when, for instance r 

 I showed my students a few microscopic threads 

 given off from the intestine of an insect, and told 

 them that these were early representatives of the 

 kidney in higher animals, they should know what 

 this most highly developed organ was like. Still,, 

 although my need for a laboratory was so great, 

 there was no possibility of its being satisfied until 

 the college removed from its first home in Quay 

 Street to its present handsome buildings in Oxford 

 Road. This removal did not take place until 

 1872. 



I soon found that to include this increased work in 

 a session of little more than eight months was almost 

 impossible, so I spread my complete course over two- 



