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INTRODUCTION 



standing till the year 1834; when, having lost much of its 

 former beauty, and being in the way of new arrangements, 

 it shared the same fate. 



The arrangement of the Garden is shown in detail in 

 W. Williams' engraving in " Oxonia depicta," plate 8, which 

 must have been drawn about 1733. 



At this period there appears to have been a long building 

 fronting the street, first used as the conservatory, but afterwards, 



THE PROFESSOR'S HOUSE, 1835 



by the addition of an upper story, converted into a receptacle for 

 the herbarium, and into a residence for the Professor. This 

 building having been pulled down about the year 1790, by 

 order of the Street Commissioners, in order to improve the 

 approaches to the bridge, then recently erected, the original 

 intention of the founder of the Professorship as to the resi- 

 dence of the Professor at the Garden, was for nearly half 



