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practice. (Applause.) In future times they might look 

 back to the manner in which marine biology had been 

 developed in the cause alike of our fisheries and of science, 

 and both those who had their living to earn and those who 

 had to advance science would equally be grateful for the 

 means which had been afforded and to those who had so 

 amply made use of them. (Applause.) In conclusion, 

 the Chancellor said whereas some years ago the natural 

 history department had been housed imperfectly at best 

 in some of the older buildings of the University, it was 

 now to find a home which they believed would be 

 worthy of it, and to which they hoped it would do justice. 

 (Applause.) 



" Lord Oxslow, who was accorded an enthusiastic 

 greeting, said he could assure his hearers that he felt it 

 a very great honour to have been asked to open the new 

 Laboratories. When the invitation was extended to him 

 in January of last year, he ventured to point out that 

 the then Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, along 

 with his colleagues, when the time came for opening the 

 Laboratories, might be in the enjoyment of greater repose 

 and less responsibility. (Laughter.) The Chancellor, 

 however, was good enough to say that it was not the 

 official but the person who had been the first Minister for 

 Fisheries in England that they desired to open their 

 building. (Applause.) He accepted that as a great 

 personal compliment. In the first place, he wished to 

 congratulate the University of Liverpool on their decision 

 to set apart a sum sufficient to properly equip the Museum 

 and Laboratories of the Natural History or Zoological 

 Department of the University. (Applause.) He thought 

 that was a wise step, but it was a step which could only 

 have been accomplished, in common with all the rest of 

 the work of the University, by the great liberality of the 



