MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT TORT ERIN. 29 



THE NEW ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORIES AND 



MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY 

 OF LIYERPOOL. 



One of the events of the year has certainly been the 

 completion, and the inauguration by the Earl of Onslow 

 on November 18th, of the new Department of Zoology in 

 the University of Liverpool. The Liverpool Marine 

 Biology Committee has been so closely connected with 

 the Zoological Department in the past, and will find such 

 increased facilities for work in the new Laboratories in 

 the future, that I have no hesitation in re-printing in this 

 Annual Report an account of the buildings and of the 

 opening ceremonies, taken from the daily papers and 

 from the pamphlet prepared by the University for 

 distribution on the occasion. 



History of the Department. 



"The Derby Chair of Natural History was established 

 by the fifteenth Earl of Derby in 1881 — an appropriate 

 gift from a descendant of the scientific founder* of the 

 celebrated zoological collections once alive at Knowsley 

 and now secured to Liverpool in the Derby Museum of the 

 Public Galleries. The first Derby Professor was appointed 

 at the end of 1881, and thus Natural History was one of 

 the three or four scientific departments with which 

 University College opened in January, 1882. There were 

 then five students. The accommodation consisted of a 

 small classroom and a larger room opening from it to serve 

 as combined museum and laboratory, but with at first no 

 cases and only temporary tables obtained on loan from 



*The thirteenth Earl of Derby, President of the Linnean Society 

 1828-1833, and subsequently President of the Zoological Society. 

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