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believe that the apartment which she visited was on the first- 

 floor above the Conservatory on the High Street, in the 

 building also known as the Professor's House (pp. 162-3). 



" The library is as large as 2 or 3 roomes but old and a 

 little disreguarded except one part w ch is parted from the rest 

 wansecoated and fitted up neate and painted which was done 

 by King James y e Second \v n he designed Maudling Colledg 

 for his priests A Seminary." 



When the house of the Professor of Botany was pulled 

 down in 1795, in order to widen the approach to Magdalen 

 Bridge, the East Central Conservatory was converted into a 

 Library, Herbarium, and Lecture Room, and was for forty 

 years the only apartment at the disposal of the Professor for 

 private study or for public instruction. In 1834 the Library 

 consisted of about 1,900 volumes, comprehending the follow- 

 ing valuable collections of books : 



Jacob Bobart's* library, containing about 280 volumes. 

 Consul Sherard's ,, ,, ,, 600 ,, 



John Sibthorp's ,, ,, ,, 750 ,, 



Prof. Williams' ,, ,, ,, 250 ,, 



And to these, Dr. Daubeny's botanical library was added in 

 1868. The whole library was classified by one of the Bodleian 

 assistants a few years ago, and it is probably the best arranged 

 and most handy library of reference in Oxford. The library 

 assistant, Mr. H. Baker, is always helpful to readers. 



Among the especial treasures in the collection we must 

 mention the MS. Pinax of Dillenius and Sherard, which 

 occupied 446 packages, divided into u books and 116 

 sections. The death of Sherard prevented the publication 

 of the results of so many years' patient labour, and the lapse 

 of time has seriously detracted from its value. Still it 

 remains a monument to industry. The library also contains 

 the valuable drawings of the Animals of the Levant executed 



* We would suggest that each of Bobart's books should be marked 

 with a bookplate copied from the engraving, No. 2, described on p. 5. 



