PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. .1 



The Liverpool Association of Science and Arts. 



The School of Science. 



The Liverpool Microscopical Society. 

 Between 1871—1880. 



The Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 



Foundation of University College. 

 Between 1881—1890. 



Foundation of the Derby Chair of Natural History in 

 University College. 



The Liverpool Marine Biological Committee. 



The Biological Society. 

 After 1890. 



Foundation of the Chair of Botany in University 

 College. 



Meeting of the British Association for the third time. 

 Such is a short and imperfect sketch, if not of all, 

 certainly of the chief, Institutions that have kept alive the 

 love of Science and advanced its progress during the 

 century fast drawing to a close. The perfection of the 

 Microscope, in which Lister's name stands eminent, and 

 of the methods of investigation, and the creation of the 

 Science of Embryology have, within even the short period 

 of the memory of some of us who are not yet very old, 

 revolutionised our Biological ideas, and opened out before 

 us new problems for investigation in every direction, and 

 as the advances made since 1860 have been gigantic, 

 those of the coming equal period will undoubtedly proceed 

 with increasing ratio. And this city, proud of its superiority 

 in the commerce of the world, and daily attaining to a 

 more exalted position among the intellectual forces of the 

 country, behoves to take a large share in those advances. 

 The local work to be done is very great ; there is scarcely 

 a single species, even our commonest, that will not repay 

 further investigation. What is needed among us is closer 



