When  he  laid  down  his  office  he  could  point  to  the
fact  that  his  laboratories,  spacious  as  they  were
thought  to  have  been  when  first  erected,  had  been
more  than  full  during  the  previous  half-dozen
years.  It  was  calculated  that  upwards  of  two  thou-
sand men  had  passed  through  his  courses.  Among
them  were  many  teachers,  technologists,  and  profes-
sional chemists  occupying  responsible  and  important
positions.  In  the  list  of  the  Dal  ton  Chemical  Scholars,
and  of  the  Berkeley  Fellows,  were  to  be  found  names
known  in  the  literature  of  science  for  their  scientific
investigations.  Indeed,  no  similar  place  in  the  king-
dom could  show  such  a  record  of  contributions  to
chemical  knowledge.  Under  Roscoe's  government
the  Owens  College  Chemical  Laboratory  furnished,
from  first  to  last,  two  hundred  and  thirty-five  original
communications,  mainly  to  the  Journal  of  the  Chemi-
cal Society,  or  the  Proceedings  and  Transactions  of
the  Royal  Society,

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Roscoe  as  a  Teacher

The  laboratories  which  Roscoe  designed,  and
which  are  known  under  his  name,  have  long  since
proved  inadequate  to  accommodate  the  numbers
which  now  flock  to  the  Manchester  School  of
Chemistry.  After  Schorlemmer's  death  it  was  found
necessary  to  add  to  their  number,  and  the  new
Schorlemmer  laboratories,  of  eighty-nine  working
benches,  were  built  for  the  special  study  of  organic
chemistry.  These  were  in  their  turn  overcrowded,
when  Mr.  Andrew  Carnegie,  the  well-known  Ameri-
can multi-millionaire,  who  never  forgets  he  was  born
on  British  soil,  presented  the  University  with  ;^io,ooo
to  erect  buildings,  on  condition  that  they  should
be  called  the  John  Morley  Laboratories,  in  honour
of  his  friend  Viscount  Morley  of  Blackburn,  the
eminent  historian  and  statesman,  and  now  Chancellor
of  the  Victoria  University.
