CHAPTER X 



Removal of college to Oxford Road Increase of laboratory 

 work Appointment of Professor Marshall Professor 

 Marshall Ward, F.R.S. Establishment of " University" 

 New medical schools New biological laboratories 

 Curious medical cases Coal investigation 



OUR college quarters in Quay Street had long been 

 too small for our needs, and, indeed, were so over- 

 crowded as to be more than inconvenient. Arrange- 

 ments for erecting new buildings in Oxford Road 

 were pushed, and the foundation-stone was laid by 

 the late Duke of Devonshire on September 23, 

 1870. 



This building was opened for regular work on 

 'October 7, 1873, and proved to be an enormous 

 relief by affording space for doing our work, but it 

 was still far from giving us all we wanted. 



I had one room in which I was able to store my 

 collection of objects used for the illustration of my 

 lectures, which room I also utilised for a poor 

 .mockery of a laboratory. 



Very shortly the amalgamation of the Royal School 

 <of Medicine and Surgery increased my number of 



