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The success of the scientific side of the Dundee 

 College was greatly due to the work of my dis- 

 tinguished and much-to-be-lamented pupil and friend 

 Dr. Carnelley, who afterwards became professor in 

 Aberdeen and enriched science with much important 

 work. I am glad to remember that since its founda- 

 tion Dundee College, passing through many difficult 

 times, has now become an integral part of the 

 neighbouring University of St. Andrews, and that 

 its influence in its district is great and constantly in- 

 creasing. And I am also pleased to think that I 

 had a hand in this matter as a member of the Scottish 

 Universities Commission. 



Other institutions of a similar but even of a more 

 important character were founded about this time. 

 The first of these was the Liverpool University 

 College, to which I have before made reference, which 

 has, after a most wonderfully successful career, now 

 blossomed out into the University of Liverpool. As 

 a member of an old Liverpool family, I was much 

 gratified to be nominated by the Duke of Devonshire, 

 who was then Chancellor of the Victoria University, 

 to a governorship of the Liverpool College. And here 

 I must express my admiration, which must be shared 

 by all interested in the higher education, of the open- 

 handed generosity of the Liverpool people, who have 

 now founded a University which in its whole equip- 

 ment is second only to that of its neighbour in 

 Manchester, and which indeed in some respects it 

 probably transcends. 



I was present at the laying of the foundation stone 

 of Firth College, which has now become the University 

 of Sheffield, by the late lamented Prince Leopold, and 

 admired his unostentatious bearing and the sound 

 sense which characterised his address on that occasion. 



