sors of mathematics, physics, chemistry,
engineering, and various branches of industrial teaching; and also of
classics, history, and modern literature, and languages. The celebrated
Leeds School of Medicine has been affiliated to the College. For special
departments of practical instruction provision has been made, the
Clothworkers' Company of London undertaking to support that which
pertains to textile industries, and the Drapers' Company that of
colliery management and mining engineering. Workshops, laboratories,
lecture rooms, and other premises, are connected with the College, the
buildings of which were designed by Sir Alfred Waterhouse, and commenced
in 1877, when the foundation stone was laid by the Archbishop of York.
The friends of the College have contributed not less than L200,000 to
bring it to its present condition. To inaugurate this great institution
the Prince and Princess of Wales visited Leeds on the 15th of July,
1885.

On arriving at Leeds from Studley, the seat of Lord Ripon, their Royal
Highnesses were received by the Mayor and Corporation, and conducted to
the Town Hall, which was opened by the Queen and the Prince Consort in
1858. An address being read by the Town Clerk, the Prince replied:--

"Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,--I receive with the greatest pleasure
the address which you have just presented to me, and the
Princess of Wales joins me in thanking you most sincerely for
your kind words of welcome. Coming from the civic authorities of
one of our greatest industrial centres these expressions are a
proof, if any were required, that the population of this country
remains true in its appreciation of the value of our
time-honoured institutions, in devotion to the Queen, and in
attachment to the Royal Family. I rejoice to learn from your
address that the visits of the members of my family at various
times to this great city have been attended with beneficial
results, and have contributed in some degree to its welfare and
prosperity, and to the development of the many useful
institutions for which Leeds is so justly famous. Although it
has pleased the Almighty to remove some of my dearest and most
gifted relations from the scene of their labours, I can assure
you that their survivors will always be ready to encourage by
their presence and assistance the foundation and advancement of
such institutions as the one which we are