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consisted of three faculties, those of Law, Medicine and 

 Arts. The Faculty of Law, then recently organized, had 

 two professors and two lecturers. The Faculty of 

 Medicine, the oldest and most prosperous of the three, 

 had ten professors and a demonstrator. The Faculty of 

 Arts had four professors and a lecturer, and all of these 

 except one gave only a part of their time to College work. 



When it is remembered that the University has now 

 one hundred and twenty professors and instructors of 

 various grades and an equipment which is in all depart- 

 ments fairly good, and in some of them unsurpassed, some 

 idea may be gained of the progress which the institution 

 made under Sir William Dawson's care and guidance. 



As Professor of Natural Science Sir William at this 

 time delivered courses in Chemistry, Botany, Zoology 

 and Geology, and Natural Science became a very favorite 

 study among the students, for he was an excellent 

 lecturer, and his enthusiasm for these studies was com- 

 municated to all who heard him. As years went on the 

 instruction in the first three of these subjects was under- 

 taken by others, and a .special chair of Geology and 

 Palaeontology was endowed by his old friend and co- 

 worker. Sir William Logan, a chair which he held until his 

 final retirement. His teaching work, however, formed 

 but a small part of his daily labors. In addition to 

 administering the affairs of the University, he was first 

 and foremost in every movement to further education in 

 the province, and no educational board was complete 

 without him. He was the Honorary President of the 

 Natural History Society, and not only never missed a 

 meeting or a field day, but also contributed a very large 

 number of very valuable papers to the Canadian 

 Naturalist and the Record of Science. He also identified 

 himself closely with many other societies in Montreal, and 

 spared neither time nor labor on their behalf. 



Over and above all this he found time to carry out 



