358 Prof. Schultes on the 



as Sir J. E. Smith says, " from 1734. till 1761, when R.Walker 

 raised it from a deep slumber. The Professor of Botany had 

 neither salary nor student." Walker provided both ; and aided 

 Martyn, who transferred his office to his son Thomas Martyn, 

 then twenty-six years of age. The latter has been for the last 

 three years prevented from lecturing by age and infii'mity ; 

 and in 1818 he transferred his situation, (inasmuch as it re- 

 lated to Walker's foundation,) to Sir James E. Smith. But 

 Monk, by interdict and proscription, prevented this worthy 

 man from performing the duties of the Pj-ofessorship ; and the 

 University of Cambridge appears to feel as little as it would 

 have done a hundred years ago, that it has for the last six years 

 been deprived of instruction in one of the most beautiful and 

 useful of sciences. The care of the garden is committed to 

 Mr. Biggs, w^hom we did not find at home. The stoves are 

 well built, and they may have been hitherto large enough ; but 

 the progress of the science will soon cause their size to be in- 

 sufficient, as they extend only to 216 feet. A building was 

 erected some years ago, for the lecture-rooms of the Professors 

 of Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Mechanics. Tlie Al- 

 pine plants, among which are some rare species from the Scotch 

 Highlands, are very properly cultivated in small pots, and 

 placed during winter under glass. The assistant-gardener, who 

 conducted me through the grounds, was not able to tell me 

 the annual expenditure of the institution. The work-people 

 receive two shillings a day. 



The Library of the University contains many rare works ; 

 but little attention seems to be paid to Natural History : and 

 even the collection of Minerals is not considerable, when com- 

 pared with many of our mineral cabinets in Bavaria. 



Our stay in London was extremely short; and we were an- 

 xious to take advantage of one of those clear days which are 

 so uncommon in England, in order to visit Oxford, which is 

 only about fifty-eight miles distant from the metropolis. We 

 }:)erlormed this distance in less than six hours, though at some 

 risk of breaking our necks. Sir J. E. Smith had been so obli- 

 ging as to give us a letter to his friend Dr. Williams, Professor 

 t>f Botany and Librarian to the lladcliile Library at the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford; and through the politeness of this highly 

 estimable person we obtained a view of the treasures of na^- 

 tural history in Oxford, and also of the lladclifie library and 

 hospital. 



I'he botanical gai'den at this University is the oldest in Eng- 

 land, having been founded by Henry Lord d'Anvers Earl of 

 Dauby, in 1G22, when the first stone was laid of a wall Ibur- 

 tcen leet high which still exists, and which it took eleven years 



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