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The Inauguration of the New Buildings. 

 The following account is abbreviated from the 

 reports of the proceedings which appeared in the 

 Liverpool daily papers : — 



" The new Museum and Laboratories of Zoology of 

 the Liverpool University were auspiciously opened on 

 Saturday, November 18th, 1905, by the Earl of Onslow, 

 formerly President of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries. Before the actual ceremony of inauguration 

 at the threshold of the handsome structure in Brown low 

 Street, there was a large gathering in the Arts Theatre of 

 guests of the Council and Senate of the University. The 

 chair was occupied by the Chancellor, the Earl of Derby, 

 and amongst others supporting him, besides Lord 

 Onslow, were Sir Edward Lawrence (pro-Chancellor), 

 Mr. E. K. Muspratt (pro-Chancellor), Sir Thomas Elliott 

 (Permanent Secretary of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries), Sir John Murray (of the " Challenger " 

 expedition), Sir John T. Brunner, Bart., M.P., Sir Lauder 

 Brunton, Yice-Chancellor Dale, the Bight Hon. P. B. 

 Haldane, K.C., M,P., the Mayor of Birkenhead, the 

 Mayor of St. Helens ; Messrs. John Lea, J. W. Alsop, 

 A. F. Warr, Charles M'Arthur, M.P., J. Hoult, M.P., 

 J. Fletcher (the Chairman of the Lancashire Sea Fisheries 

 Committee), and Hugh P. Pathbone (treasurer) ; Major 

 MacMahon, the Rev. Spotswood Green ; Deemster Kneen, 

 Lord Mountmorres, Drs. Caton, Tempest Anderson, and 

 Shuckburgh; Professors Watkinson, Dominii, Wyld, 

 Reilly, Owen Williams, Herdman, Marckant, Moore, 

 Elton, Wilberforce, Briggs, Carter, Glynn, Rushton 

 Parker, MacCunn, Dendy, Londini, Graham-Kerr, Carey, 

 1 1 mvey-Gibson, Kuno Meyer, Sherrington, Hickson, 

 D'Arcy Thompson, Davis, Newton Parker, Denny, 

 Ross, Gilson (Louvain), and Jungersen (Copenhagen). 



