34 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



" In addition to these, a Natural History Class which 

 meets next term usually brings from thirty to forty 

 other students. 



" It has been recognised for some years that the 

 accommodation in the old College buildings was quite 

 inadequate to meet the wants of this Department; and 

 although some extensions had been made, such as a 

 wooden Fisheries Laboratory on the roof and a convenient 

 little museum (given about ten years ago by the late Mr. 

 George Holt), these were temporary expedients which in 

 some ways only emphasised the pressing need for new 

 and much larger buildings. Eesearch work offered to the 

 Department was hampered and in some cases had to be 

 declined for want of room. These facts were given 

 expression to in the statements of needs drawn up in 

 connection with the University movement of 1901-2, and 

 after the establishment of the University a sum of £18,000 

 was voted to the Council by the University Committee in 

 October, 1902, for the purpose of erecting and equipping 

 a new department of Zoology, to contain a museum and a 

 lecture theatre, the necessary students' laboratories, and 

 also accommodation for Sea Fisheries investigations and 

 other lines of Marine Biological research. A building 

 committee was appointed by the Council, Messrs. Willink 

 and Thicknesse were selected as Architects, plans were 

 prepared and approved, and the contract for the erection 

 of the block of buildings containing the departments of 

 Natural History, Electrotechnics, and Geology, was 

 given to Messrs. Thornton and Sons, of Liverpool. The 

 Electrotechnics Laboratories were finished and opened 

 last July. The Geology rooms are not yet completed.''* 



"At the opening of the buildings, Sir John Murray made the 

 interesting suggestion that a Chair of Geology, with special hearing 

 upon the geological problems of Oceanography, would be appropriate 

 to Liverpool. 



