66 Plant Tissue Culture 



"(My) room was generally hung round with Guts, stomachs, bladders, 

 preparations of parts and drawings. I had sand furnaces, Calots, Glasses 

 and all sorts of Chymical Implements. . . . Here I and my Associates 

 often dined upon the same table as our dogs lay upon. I often prepared 

 the pulvis fulminans and sometimes surprized the whole College with a 

 sudden explosion. I cur'd a lad once of an ague with it, by fright. In 

 my own Elaboratory I made large quantitys of sal volatile oleosum, 

 Tinctura Metallorum, Elixir Proprietatis and such matters as would 

 serve to put into our Drink." 



Diary of Mr. Wm. Stukeley, 1707, describing his 

 rooms at Cambridge where he and his fellow stu- 

 dent, Mr. Stephen Hales, planned and carried out 

 some of the first real experiments in plant and 

 animal physiology. US. 





