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to investigate the fungoid diseases that were 

 making such havoc amongst the coffee-plantations 

 of that island. On his return to Manchester, we 

 elected him to a Berkeley fellowship, then at our 

 disposal, in the department of botanical research. 

 Some time afterwards I was again in need of a 

 demonstrator; he resigned his fellowship, and once 

 more worked along with me. This he continued to 

 do until his own election to his present professor- 

 ship at Cooper's Hill.* He soon was elected Fellow 

 of the Royal Society, and a few weeks ago I had the 

 rich pleasure of seeing him receive from the hands 

 of Lord Kelvin one of the Society's gold medals, 

 given in recognition of his most elaborate researches 

 in some of the obscure branches of vegetable physi- 

 ology. Meanwhile, in addition to the changes already 

 recorded, I should mention some others of even greater 

 importance. 



In 1880 the Queen granted us our charter, estab- 

 lishing the Victoria University, the seat of which 

 was to be permanently in Manchester. The three 

 teaching institutions ultimately united in this uni- 

 versity were Owens College at Manchester, Uni- 

 versity College at Liverpool, and Yorkshire College 

 at Leeds. The two latter, however, became con- 

 nected with us some time after the original granting 

 of the charter. 



Meanwhile the charter fell short of all that was 



* Professor Marshall Ward now holds the Chair of 

 Botany in Cambridge. A. C. W. 



